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Balkh Province
Balkh () is a province in the northern part of Afghanistan. Its capital is Mazar-i-Sharif. Most of its people are Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks.
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Dwight Hicks
Dwight Hicks was born April 5, 1956 in Mount Holly, New Jersey. He was a professional American football player. He played the defensive back position for the Toronto Argonauts in 1978. He also played in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers from 1979 to 1985 and for the Indianapolis Colts in 19...
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Surface gravity
The surface gravity, "g", of an astronomical or other object is the gravitational acceleration experienced at its surface. The surface gravity may be thought of as the acceleration caused by the gravity experienced by a hypothetical test particle which is very close to the object's surface and which, in order not to di...
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Rotation period
In astronomy, a rotation period is the time an astronomical object takes to complete one revolution around its rotation axis relative to the background stars. For the Earth this is a sidereal day. It is different from a solar day, which is measured by the passage of the Sun across the local meridian. All celestial obje...
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Absolute magnitude
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Angular size
Angular size is a measurement of how large or small something is using rotational measurement. It is useful for measuring things that are so far away that they appear two dimensional.
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House Sparrow
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Albedo
The albedo of an object is the extent to which it reflects light, more specifically light which comes from the Sun. It is defined as the ratio of reflected to incident electromagnetic radiation. It is a unitless measure indicative of a surface's or body's diffuse reflectivity. The word is derived from "albus", a Latin ...
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Robin Olds
Robin Olds (July 14, 1922 – June 14, 2007) was a member of the United States Air Force. He was one of the first jet fighter pilots. In World War II, he flew a P-38 Lightning and a P-51 Mustang. In the Vietnam War, he was a commander and was angry about lack of dogfight training. He flew an F-4 Phantom II. In 1973, he r...
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Lady Mary Grey
Lady Mary Grey (20 April 1545 – 20 April 1578) was the sister of Lady Jane Grey and Lady Katherine Grey. Her parents were Lady Frances Brandon and Henry Grey. Life. Mary Grey's parents were disappointed with her birth, because she was a girl and a hunchback. She was described as "four foot tall and hunchbacked". Mary'...
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German-speaking Community of Belgium
The German-speaking Community of Belgium (, short "DGB") is one of the three federal communities in Belgium. It is the main part of the so-called East Cantons () of Belgium. It has an area of , and a population of over 73,000, of which almost 100% are German speaking (traditionally Ripuarian-speaking). Its capital is E...
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County Durham
County Durham is a county in north-east England. There are four different types of county: Its county town is Durham. The form of the county name is unique in England. Many counties are named after their principal town, and the expected form here would be "Durhamshire". But County Durham did not become a shire/county u...
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Southeastern Europe
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Balkan Mountains
The Balkan mountain range (Bulgarian and Serbian: Стара планина, "Stara planina", "Old Mountain") is an extension of the Carpathian mountain range, separated from it by the Danube River. The People who lived in the Balkan Mountains are called Balkandjii. The Balkan range runs 560 km from eastern Serbia eastward through...
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Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains are the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Central Europe, curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the borders of Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Austria, Serbia, and northern Hungary. Geography. The Carpathians begin on the Danube near Bratislava. They surr...
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Squamata
Squamata ("scaled reptiles") is the order of reptiles which includes lizards and snakes, and the Amphisbaenia. Their skins have overlapping horny scales. They also have movable quadrate bones, which make it possible to move the upper jaw relative to the braincase. This is particularly visible in snakes, which are able...
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Pingu
Pingu is a stop-motion animated series for children about a penguin called Pingu. The series is popular in many countries because the characters only make sounds instead of saying words. History. "Pingu" was made in Switzerland on May 28, 1986. The show was co-created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann. It aired on...
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Tatra mountains
The Tatra Mountains, Tatras or Tatra (Tatry in both Slovak and Polish), constitute a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. They occupy an area of 750 km², the major part (600 km²) of which lies in Slovakia. The highest Tatra peak, at 2655 m, is Gerlachovský štít, located in Slovakia. ...
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Frank G. Wells
Franklin G. Wells (March 4, 1932 – April 3, 1994) was the former President of Warner Bros. (1973–1977) and the Walt Disney Company (1984–1994). He climbed the highest mountain of every continent, but he did not reach the summit of the Mount Everest. Frank Wells was born in 1932. At age 37, he became the Vice President ...
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Perfect
Perfect could mean: In mathematics: In biology: In music: As a proper name:
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CE
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Bodhi Tree
The Bodhi Tree was a large and very old sacred fig tree ("Ficus religiosa"), which grew at the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya. Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism, later known as Gautama Buddha, achieved "Bodhi" (spiritual enlightenment) while sitting under this tree. The Bodhi tree is easi...
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Bob Hope
Leslie Townes Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), better known as Bob Hope, was a British-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, and dancer. He was the only person who received five honorary Oscars. Early life. Bob Hope was born on May 29, 1903, in London, England to a Welsh mother and English father. In 1908...
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Electronic keyboard
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Dawn French
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British comedian and actress. French studied acting at the London Central School of Speech and Drama, and met Jennifer Saunders there in 1977. French and Saunders became famous when they appeared on a comedy series called "The Comic Strip". They wrote the famous comedy seri...
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Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens in Kreyòl) is the capital city of Haiti. Haiti is also divided into ten "Départements"; Port-au-Prince is the capital of the Ouest "Département." Port-au-Prince is Haiti's largest city. According to the country's 2015 census, over 2.6 million people lived there. History. Port-au-Prince was bui...
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Hamelin
Hameln (English name sometimes "Hamelin") is a city in Germany. In 2005, about 58,000 people lived there. A very well-known story from there is called The Pied Piper of Hamelin ("Der Rattenfänger von Hameln"). The story dates from the Middle Ages.
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MiG-15
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MiG-17
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MiG-21
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
The MiG-25 Foxbat is a fast fighter plane made made by Russian airplane company Mikoyan. Its primary goal is to attack enemies at high speed and altitude. It first flew in 1964 and was introduced in 1970. In 1976, a Soviet MiG-25 pilot left the Soviet Union and flew his plane to Japan, where it was looked at. It is ver...
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Semi-major and semi-minor axes
In geometry, the semi-major axis is the distance from the center of an ellipse to the farthest point on the perimeter of the ellipse. The semi-major axis is half of the major axis, which goes all the way across the ellipse at the widest part. The semi-minor axis is a line segment that is at 90 degrees with the semi-maj...
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Apsis
In astronomy, an apsis, plural "apsides" (IPA: //) is the point of greatest or least distance of the elliptical orbit of an astronomical object from its center of attraction, which is generally the center of mass of the system. The point of closest approach is called the periapsis or pericentre and the point of farthes...
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Orbital eccentricity
In astrodynamics, orbital eccentricity shows how much the shape of an object's orbit is different from a circle. Eccentricity (formula_1) is defined for all circular, elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic orbits. It can take the following values: Finding eccentricity. Here is a formula to find eccentricity: formula_6 Wher...
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Astronomical unit
The astronomical unit (AU) is a unit of length derived from the Earth's orbit. It is the average distance the Earth gets from the Sun "on the long axis of the ellipse". Its definition is: the length of the semi-major axis of the Earth's elliptical orbit around the Sun. "Semi-major" means half the long axis. The AU is a...
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Giga
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Degree (angle)
In mathematics, a degree is a common way to measure plane angle. It is written with the symbol formula_1, where formula_2 corresponds to the entire circle. It is not an SI unit. The SI uses radian to measure plane angle. However, according to the SI brochure, it is an accepted unit by SI. History. The actual reason of ...
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Julian year (astronomy)
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Epoch (astronomy)
In astronomy, an epoch (or sometimes epochal moment) is a moment in time for which the position or the orbital elements of a celestial body are specified. The position at other times can be measured by taking into account proper motion or orbital motion. In the case of orbital elements for a solar system body, these ch...
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Julian date
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Julian day
The Julian day or Julian day number (JDN) is the number of days that have passed since the initial epoch defined as noon Coordinated Universal Time (UCT) Monday, 1 January 4713 BC in the Julian calendar. That noon-to-noon day is defined as Julian day 0. Thus all JDNs that are evenly divisible by 7 are Mondays. Negative...
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Meatball
A meatball is meat that is ground up (finely cut), mixed with other ingredients, then shaped like a ball. Most meatballs are made out of beef. Meatballs can also be made out of chicken, fish, or other kinds of meat. The other ingredients (parts) are usually bread, onion, and eggs. Meatballs can be cooked by frying, bak...
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Mandé people
Mandé or Manding is a region between southern Mali and eastern Guinea. The Hunters from Wagadou (or Ouagadou) founded Mandé, the Mandingo country, notably the mythical ancestors Kontron and Sanin, at the origin of the Malinké and Bambaras hunter brotherhood. This country was famous for the large number of animals and g...
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Amadou Toumani Touré
General (ret) Amadou Toumani Touré (November 4, 1948 – November 10, 2020) was the president of Mali. He took power from a military ruler, Moussa Traoré in 1991, then he gave power to civilian (non-military) authorities in 1992. He won the presidential election in 2002. He won the next election easily in 2007. He was bo...
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Ghana Empire
The Ghana Empire was in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. It is also sometimes called the Wagadu Empire. It started in around 100 CE and ended in mid-1000 CE. They had two sides; Muslim and Non-muslim what divided them was a 6 miles of informal market villages (street). Ghana sat ...
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Mali Empire
The Mali was a West African country from 1235 to 1645. The Mandinka people lived there they still are in some parts of Africa today. It is also called the Manding Empire or Manden Kurufa. Sundiata Keita started the empire and the empire became famous because its rulers were very rich, especially Mansa Musa I. The Mali ...
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Timbuktu
Timbuktu is a city in Tombouctou Region, Mali. Sankore University and other madrasas are in the city. The city was important for thinking and for religion in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was important in spreading Islam through Africa at that time. There are three great mosques: Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahya....
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Jeanne Demessieux
Jeanne Demessieux (born Montpellier, France, 13 February 1921; died Paris, 11 November 1968), was a French organist and composer. Early years. She started to learn the piano when she was very young, before taking up the organ. Her family moved to Paris so that she could continue to have music lessons there. She became ...
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House mouse
House mouse ("Mus musculus") is the common mouse. It is one of the species of the genus "Mus". Often, it is just called a mouse. It is a small rodent. In most parts of the world, they live close to humans. Laboratory mice are types of house mice and are some of the most important organisms used for research in biology...
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Scientology
Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, an American writer and philosopher. "Scientology" means "the study of knowledge." Hubbard founded Scientology in 1954 and contributed to it until his death in 1986. David Miscavige succeeded him and still leads Scientology today. Sc...
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Mike Gravel
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (May 13, 1930 – June 26, 2021) was an American Democratic politician. He was member of the Libertarian Party from 2008 to 2010 when he re-joined the Democratic Party. He served as a United States Senator from Alaska (1969-1981) and, previously, as member of the Alaska House of Representativ...
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Iva Zanicchi
Iva Zanicchi (born 18 January 1940) is an Italian singer and politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 - 2014.
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North German Confederation
The North German Confederation (), was first a military alliance of 22 states of northern Germany, and later a federal state. It was preceded by a Zollverein, a customs union that allowed free trade among most German states. The Confederation started in August 1866, and the Kingdom of Prussia was the leading state. On ...
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MiG Alley
MiG Alley was a place during the Korean War that had a lot of North Korean MiG-15 Fagots in the area. It was over north west North Korea, near China. F-86 Sabres mainly fought the MiGs. Some of the pilots were Russian fighter pilots from World War II and were very well trained. They were called "honchos" (Japanese for ...
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Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs
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Österreichische Volkspartei
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Union pour un Mouvement Populaire
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Nationaldemokraterna
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Sozialistische Reichspartei
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Inclination
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Argument of periapsis
In astronomy, the argument of periapsis (ω) is a way of talking about the orbit of a planet, asteroid or comet. It is also known as the argument of perihelion or the argument of perifocus. It is the angle (starting from the center of the orbit) between an orbiting body's periapsis and its ascending node. Periapsis is t...
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Longitude of the ascending node
The longitude of the ascending node (☊ or Ω) is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. It is the angle from a reference direction, called the "origin of longitude", to the direction of the ascending node, measured in a reference plane.
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Mean anomaly
In the study of orbital dynamics the mean anomaly of an orbiting body is the angle the body would have travelled about the center of the orbit's auxiliary circle. Unlike other measures of anomaly, the mean anomaly grows linearly with time. Because of the linear growth with time, the mean anomaly makes calculating the t...
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Orbital period
The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit around another object. The year and month are orbital periods. When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars. Other ...
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Orbital speed
The orbital speed of a body, usually a planet, a natural satellite, an artificial satellite, or a multiple star, is the speed at which it orbits around the barycenter of a system, usually around a more massive body. It can be used to refer to either the mean orbital speed, the average speed as it completes an orbit, or...
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101
"101 (number)" Year 101 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
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Continental drift
Continental drift is a historical, scientific theory. The theory was first proposed by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. It was fully developed by the German geologist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1915. The theory said that parts of the Earth's crust move slowly on top of a liquid mantle of higher density. The theory h...
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Saxe-Altenburg
Saxe-Altenburg () was one of the Ernestine duchies of the House of Wettin. Altenburg was independent for most of the 1600s until 1672. This is when the last male ruler died. Because only men could rule the Ernestine duchies Altenburg began to be ruled by the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, who had married the last ruler’s daughter...
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Evensong
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Porcupine
A porcupine is a rodent with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that defend them from predators. The porcupine is the third biggest rodent, after the capybara, and beaver. They are not to be confused with hedgehogs. Most porcupines are about 60–90 cm long, with a 20–25 cm long tail. Weighing between 12-35 pounds (5–16 ...
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The Silvia Night Show
The Silvia Night Show is a 2007 Icelandic television series following the controversial fictional character Silvia Night. It is the English version that was made to promote her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. The show followed Silvia Night during her appearance in Eurovision Song Contest 2006, and her tan...
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Alexandra Sapot
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Hope Harris
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Melissa Hanson
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Tanya Gingerich
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Jakten på Billie Jo
was a Swedish reality program. It was first broadcast on August 4, 2000. It was broadcast by the station TV4. The program followed three American actresses who auditioned for the role as "Billie Jo" in the Swedish soap opera "Nya tider". The winner was Alexandra Sapot. The winner was chosen by Swedish viewers' televot...
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Ernestine duchies
The Ernestine duchies, are sometimes called the Saxon duchies, were a changing number of small states in the present German state of Thuringia, governed by dukes of the Ernestine line of the house of Wettin. The Albertine duchies of Weissenfels, Merseburg and Zeitz were are also sometimes called "Saxon duchies" and bor...
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Ruhleben P.O.W.Camp
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Sony PlayStation 2
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Kalpa
Kalpa could mean:
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Patricia Nixon Cox
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Sri Maha Bodhi
The Sri Maha Bodhi is a Sacred Fig tree in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. The site where it's on, Sacred City of Anuradhapura, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is said to be a tree grown from a sapling from the famous Bodhi tree where the first Buddha became enlightened. It brought down by Mihindu (Mahinda) an...
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List of children of presidents of the United States
This is a list of children of U.S. presidents with stepchildren, adopted children, and alleged illegitimate children included. Full names are given including middle, maiden and married names. This list also includes the children's spouses and any known children they had and a “?” for an unknown number of children. Pres...
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Dolores Hope
Dolores Hope (May 27, 1909 – September 19, 2011) was an American singer. She was the widow of Bob Hope. Early life. Hope was born Dolores DeFina on May 27, 1909. She was of Italian and Irish ancestry. She was born and raised in New York City. She began her career in the 1930s. Marriage to Bob Hope. In 1933, she met Bob...
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William Jefferson Clinton
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes
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James Abram Garfield
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Chester Alan Arthur
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Warren Gamaliel Harding
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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Harry S Truman
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Dwight David Eisenhower
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.
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James Earl Carter, Jr.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
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Miranda
Miranda (late latin "Miranda" meaning to be admired at or "watchtower", "vantage point"). Miranda is also a family name and a female given name. It may also refer to: