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Piedmont
Piedmont ( ; , ; Piedmontese, Occitan and , ) is a region in the northern part of Italy. The name means "foot of mountain" (Alps). The capital is Turin. Piedmont has 8 provinces within it. In the north of Piedmont there is the country of Switzerland and the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta, in the east there are the reg...
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Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete and activist. He lost one of his legs because of bone cancer when he was 18. He is best known for The Marathon of Hope. This was a run across Canada (with the help of an artificial leg). It started on April 12, 1980 in St. John's, Newfoundland....
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Rick Hansen
Rick Hansen, CC, OBC (born August 26, 1957 in Port Alberni, British Columbia) is a Canadian athlete and activist. He was paralyzed in an accident at the age of 15. Inspired by his friend Terry Fox, who tried to run across Canada after losing a leg to cancer, he set out on a trip to travel around the world, in his wheel...
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Films
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Fin
A fin is a surface used to produce lift and thrust or to steer while traveling in water, air, or other fluid media. The word was first used for the limbs of fish, but it is now also used to mean other animal limbs and human-made devices. The fins of fish are called:
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Method
Method may mean:
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Region
Region is a geographic term used in many ways in the different types of geography. In general, a region is a medium-scale area of land or water. It is smaller than the whole area of something (which could be, for example, the world, a nation, a mountain range, and so on). A climate zone is one kind of region. A region...
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Toothache
A toothache is a pain felt in a person's tooth, normally when the tooth is hurt. A tooth can be hurt by tooth decay caused by plaque or by an injury. A toothache can come and go with pain, certain cold or hot foods can impact the pain a person feels.
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Icing (food)
Icing is a paste that is usually made from sugar. It is also called "frosting". It is put on cakes to add flavour. Many kinds of cake have icing, especially cakes made for special occasions like birthday cakes, wedding cakes and Christmas cake.
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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Kurdish
Kurdish might mean:
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Romford
Romford is a town in Greater London. It is in the London Borough of Havering, England. It was first recorded as a town in 1153 in the "Red Book of the Exchequer". The name "Romford" means "wide ford". The stream that flows through it was only later called "the Rom River" after the town. In medieval times, this town wa...
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Maltose
Maltose (known as malt sugar) is a disaccharide (sometimes called di-glucose). It is formed from two glucose molecules joined at carbons 1 and 4. It is found in germinating seeds such as barley as they break down their starch stores to use for food.
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Toolbox
A toolbox or toolkit is a box where a person stores tools. You can find them where people work with tools, like houses that are being built. Some computer programs used to make other computer programs are also called toolboxes or toolkits (this is a metaphor).
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Programs
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Stone
A stone is a piece of rock. It is a mass of hard, compacted mineral. The word is often used to mean a small piece of rock. The word "stone" also refers to natural rock as a material, especially a building material. Natural stones used as building material include granite, marble and sandstone. Manufactured, artificial ...
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Hotspot (computers)
A hotspot is a place where computers with the ability for wireless connections can connect to the Internet. Wi-Fi hot spots can be found in some public areas, sometimes for free. Some local libraries, coffee shops, and restaurants offer hotspots. Some passenger vehicles have a traveling hotspot for their customers. Som...
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is in the eastern prairie region of Western Canada. It is often called the "Gateway to the West." Winnipeg is the sixth-largest city in Canada with a population around 750,000 people. The city's name comes from the Cree word for "muddy waters." In the city, the R...
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EU
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Kilobyte
A kilobyte (kB) is a number used to measure storage space on computer hard drives or computer memory. A kilobyte originally meant 1024 bytes. Over time the meaning changed and today it is often used to mean 1000 bytes. This created some confusion as a "kilo" normally means 1000. The International Electrotechnical Commi...
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Byte
A byte is a unit of measurement of the size of information on a computer or other electronic device. A single byte is usually eight bits. Some early computers used six bits for each byte. Bits are the smallest unit of storage on a computer, a single on/off value. Bytes are often represented by the capital letter B, bit...
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Subatomic particle
A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. Like atoms and molecules, a subatomic particle is far too small to be seen with the eye. The subatomic particles that make atoms: protons, neutrons, and electrons are the most commonly studied ones. The study of subatomic particles is called particle physics. Th...
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Screen
A screen can be:
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Breathing
Breathing is moving air in and out of the lungs. The air going in and out is called "breath". If a person cannot breathe, they will die. Breathing helps people do two very important things: When a person breathes in, they bring air into their lungs. Air has oxygen in it. The oxygen goes from the lungs into the person's...
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Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is an American teacher and author. She was the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 as the wife of the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush. Before becoming first lady, she was the first lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000 when her husband was govern...
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The Flowers Of Romance
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Dijon
Dijon is a commune in France. It is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region; it is also the prefecture (regional capital) of the region but the council of the region meets in Besançon. It is the main city of the department and also the largest city of the region. History. Dijon ...
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Simon Rodia
Sabato "Simon" Rodia (1879–1965) was an Italian immigrant who lived in the United States in the district of Los Angeles, California, called Watts. Starting in 1921 and until 1954, he built the Watts Towers, from junk and things he found. Many people made fun of him and tried to vandalize (damage) the "towers". He did n...
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Terry Southern
Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American writer. He was part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s. He was a friend to Beat writers in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. In the 1970s he made changes to the way movies were written. In the 1980s he wrote for "Saturday Night Live" and tal...
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1615
1615 (MDCXV) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.
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Emeril Lagasse
Emeril Lagasse (born October 15, 1959) is an American celebrity chef. He is best known for his television program "Emeril Live", which airs on the Food Network. He hosts a Cooking Channel show named "Emeril's Florida". He also has several restaurants and wrote some cookbooks. He is also famous for his catchphrases "Bam...
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Emeril Legasse
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Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Rita was a powerful hurricane in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It hit the United States' Gulf Coast. At its peak intensity, it was a strong Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour. It made landfall as a Category 3 storm, and caused more flooding in New Orleans, which already had weak...
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Boeing 767
The Boeing 767 is a wide-body aircraft made and built by Boeing. The aircraft was developed on July 14, 1978, as a part of the 7X7 project. The first prototype flew on September 26, 1981. The aircraft was certified on July 30, 1982. The aircraft started flying the 767-200 commercially on September 8, 1982 with United A...
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1557
1557 (MDLVII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer from Maine. He writes scary horror novels. His books and stories have sold more than 300 million copies. He has written more than fifty novels, two hundred short stories, and nine collections of short fiction. Works. King's first novel, Carrie, was publ...
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Spelling
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Baby
A baby is a human younger than about 1 or 2 years old. Other terms can be used to describe the baby's stage of development. These terms do not follow clear rules and are used differently by different people, and in different regions. For example, "infant" may be used until the baby can walk, while some use "infant" unt...
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Cactus
A cactus (plural: cacti) is a kind of a plant adapted to hot, dry climates Plants which live this kind of life-style are called xerophytes. Most are succulents, which store water. Cacti are members of the plant family Cactaceae, in the order Caryophyllales. Cactaceae were evaluated to be the 5th most endangered plant o...
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Desert
A desert is an arid (dry) biome. They get less than of rainfall a year. It is "any region that can have a moisture deficit over the course of a year". In other words, they can have less rainfall in a year than they give up through evaporation". Including the semi-arid regions, deserts cover about 33% of the land on Ea...
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Dessert
A dessert is a type of food that is eaten after lunch or dinner, and sometimes after a light meal or snack. It is usually a sweet food, like ice cream, cookies, and cakes. In some countries, cream cheese and fruit are served as dessert. Some desserts are made from natural resources like fruit juice used in sherbet. Oth...
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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the 9th president of the United States. His nickname was "Old Tippecanoe," and he was a well-respected war veteran. Harrison served the shortest term of any president, exactly one month. He was elected president in 1840 and took the oath of office on March 4...
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Viacom
Viacom (short for Video & Audio Communications) was an American entertainment company. It started in 1970 as Viacom International, the syndication division of CBS TV (which they once owned). In 2005, Viacom split into two companies: the original company was renamed CBS Corporation, and a new company keeping the Via...
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Uniform Resource Locator
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is another name for a web address. URLs are made of letters, numbers and other symbols in a standard form. People use them on computers, to make the computer fetch and show some specific resource (usually a web page) from another computer (web server) on the Internet. They do this by typi...
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Cuckoo clock
A cuckoo-in-the-clock, also known as a cuckoo clock, is a kind of clock. Cuckoo clocks have a case made of wood that looks like a small house. It gets its name because at the start of every hour, a small door on the clock open up and a little wooden bird comes out. The clock then makes a noise which sounds like a bird ...
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Labrador Retriever
The Labrador Retriever (or Lab and Labrador for short) is a breed of dog. It is a kind of gun dog. Labrador Retrievers are very gentle dogs with family-friendly personalities. They are the most popular breed of dogs for pets in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They enjoy atten...
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman. She served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 until her resignation in 1990, longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th century. She led the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. Thatcher was...
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Firefighter
Firefighters are people who help put out fires. However, they can also help with many other emergencies. Firefighters use different types of equipment to deal with each type of emergency they are called to. They work for the fire service, which is one of the three main emergency services. Firefighters are based in and ...
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Random
Random is a term used in mathematics (and less formally) to mean that there is no way to reliably predict an outcome (to know what will happen "before" it happens) or sense a pattern. Something that is chosen at random is not chosen for any conscious reason, and therefore thought to be purely by chance. An example of a...
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Political status of Taiwan
The political status of Taiwan is a difficult situation that many people disagree about. There are two regions in the world that call themselves China. The People's Republic of China (PRC) is the region most people think of when they hear the name China. The Republic of China (ROC) also calls itself China. It is better...
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Cellular respiration
Cellular respiration is what cells do to break up sugars to get energy they can use. Cellular respiration takes in food and uses it to create ATP, a chemical which the cell uses for energy. Usually, this process uses oxygen, and is called aerobic respiration. It has four stages known as glycolysis, Link reaction, the ...
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Lesotho
Lesotho is a small country in southern Africa, it is an enclave of South Africa. Its population is about 1,800,000. The capital of Lesotho is called Maseru. Geography. Lesotho has no coast on the sea nor on a lake. This type of country is called "landlocked", meaning it is surrounded by land. All of Lesotho's trade mus...
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Biased
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 – July 12, 1804) was a statesman, political theorist, and economist who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Hamilton was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury and was known for the creation of a national bank. Born on the island of Nevis in the Caribbea...
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Köbes
A Köbes (pronounced like 'kur-bess') is a waiter in traditional pubs in the Rhineland part of Germany, especially in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Krefeld. A Köbes wears a blue apron and blue jacket and has a big leather belt with a leather purse. He serves beer and food to guests and replaces empty beer glasses with full on...
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Stop-motion
Stop motion is a popular way of animation which makes it look like still objects are moving. Clay animation is also an example of how stop motion is used. Stop-motion requires any camera that can make single frames (or photos). It works by shooting a single frame, moving the object a little bit, and capturing a frame a...
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D.C. United
D.C. United is a Major League Soccer league soccer (or football) team that plays in Washington, D.C. in the United States. Its nickname is "the Black-and-Red". The club operates the D.C. United Academy, a youth academy to help develop young soccer players.
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Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos is an American composer and musician. She was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She is known as one of the first people to use electric instruments to make music. In 1968, she released her music album "Switched on Bach". This album used many new electric instruments including the Moog Synthesizer. It won th...
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Boolean algebra
In mathematics, Boolean algebra is an algebra for binary digits (where 0 means false and 1 means true). It is equipped with three operators: conjunction (AND), disjunction (OR) and negation (NOT). It uses normal math symbols, but it does not work in the same way. It is named for George Boole, who invented it in the mid...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (published in the US under the title "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone") is the first book in the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling. It was published in 1997 and a movie version was released in 2001. Plot summary. This is the first book in a series of seven about...
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Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and dancer. Known as the Prince of Pop, he is one of the greatest pop stars of the 21st century. Timberlake first became famous when he appeared in the television series "Mickey Mouse Club." He later became part ...
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Aramaic language
Aramaic is a Semitic language. It has been written for 3,100 years and has been spoken for longer than that. It is one of the Northwest Semitic languages. Other Semitic languages include Amharic, Hebrew, Arabic and many other languages. Aramaic words are written with the 22 characters of the Aramaic alphabet, which was...
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Libya
Libya ( ', Berber: ⵍⵉⴱⵢⴰ "Libya"), officially the State of Libya, is a country in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. It covers an area of almost . Libya is the 17th largest count...
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Population density
The population density of a country or city or other place is a number showing how crowded that place is. It is got by dividing the population by the area. For example, France has a population of 60,561,200, and an area of 551,695 square kilometres, so its population density is about 109.8 persons per square kilometre....
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Joey
Joey has the following meanings:
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Nihau
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Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American drama movie. It stars John Travolta as a 19 year old working-class Italian American man named Tony Manero. Manero lives with his parents and works in a dead-end job at a small hardware store. He tries to escape his problem-filled life in Brooklyn by dancing at a nightclub in New ...
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Greyhound
A Greyhound is a dog breed that is skinny, has long legs, and runs faster than any other breed of dog. It is one of the oldest breeds of dogs. For centuries, people have raced them in some parts of the world. Greyhound racing is a bit like horse racing in many ways. In recent years, many Greyhounds have been mistreated...
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Grand unification theory
Grand unification theory or GUT is a model that tries to describe the universe. It says that three forces - electromagnetic, weak and strong forces - were once combined into a single force. These are three of the fundamental four forces of nature, which are responsible for all of the pushes and pulls in the universe. I...
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Factory
A factory is a building where workers use machines to make things for sale. It usually means a building where companies use mass production to make different things. Many of the same thing are made in a short amount of time. People who work in factories are losing their jobs because machines can do their work more easi...
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United States Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is an important document in the history of the United States of America. It was ratified on July 4, 1776. It says that the Americans were no longer under British rule. Instead, the thirteen British colonies came together to become a union of free and independent states. In ...
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Jordan
Jordan (officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) is an Arab country in southwest Asia, in the Middle East, in the southern part of the Levant region, and the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Jordan has borders with Syria to the north, Palestine and Israel to the west, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the eas...
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Israeli
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Woodcutter
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Prejudice
Prejudice means preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. The word comes from the Latin "pre" (before) and "judge". People may prejudge any question, but the word is often used for an opinion about a person or group of people. English understanding of the Latin has changed in past centuries...
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Inflation
Inflation means that the general level of prices is going up. More money will be needed to pay for goods (like a loaf of bread) and services (like getting a haircut at the hairdresser's). Economists measure inflation regularly to know an economy's state. Inflation changes the ratio of money towards goods or services; m...
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Obsessive–compulsive disorder
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder. It causes repeated and unwanted thoughts and/or feelings (obsessions). It causes repeated actions (compulsions). Overview. Anxiety is one of the most common symptoms. It can lead the person to believe that if a task is not done, something bad will happen. Such a...
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Paris, France
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London, England
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is the name of the time when there was a big change in the way things were made. Instead of things being hand-made in small workshops, they were made more cheaply in large quantities by machines in factories. This improved the idea of assembly lines. People found that they could make many more...
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Industrial revolution
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Botswana
Botswana (officially called the Republic of Botswana) is a country in southern Africa. The capital of Botswana is Gaborone. History. The first people in Botswana's territory were the Khoe and San people. Botswana was first formed as the Bechuanaland Protectorate by the British Empire in 1885. Geography. The countries t...
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Ferry
Ferry is a boat or ship that is used to take people, vehicles or goods across large bodies of water, such as seas, lakes, and rivers. In many places around the world, ferries are very important for public transport. Some of these places can only be reached by ferry, because they have no roads or railways with bridge o...
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Rapa
Rapa or Oparo is an island in French Polynesia. It is sometimes called Rapa Iti to distinguish it from Rapa Nui (Easter Island). History. The first European, who visited the island, was the captain George Vancouver. He visited the island in 1791. The island had an estimated population of about 2000 inhabitants. Four tr...
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The Entertainer
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Jo Whiley
Johanne "Jo" Whiley (born 4 July, 1965 in Northampton) is an English radio DJ on BBC Radio 1, and television presenter. She had a weekday lunchtime show, called "The Jo Whiley Show" and later "The Lunchtime Social". When Simon Mayo left Radio 1 for BBC Radio 5 Live in February 2001, Whiley's show was moved to mid-morni...