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Ludiano
Ludiano was a municipality of the district Blenio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 1 April 2012, the former municipalities of Ludiano, Malvaglia and Semione merged to form the new municipality of Serravalle.
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Lugaggia
Lugaggia was a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 20 April 2008, the former municipalities of Bidogno, Corticiasca and Lugaggia joined together and became the municipality of Capriasca.
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Lugano
Lugano (Latin language: "Luganum") is a city of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. History. Lugano has existed as a town since at least 984. The territory of Lugano was fought over by Milan and Como throughout the Middle Ages. The city joined Switzerland in 1513. In 1956, Lugano hosted the firs...
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Lumino
Lumino is a municipality of the district Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
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Egyptian pyramids
The Pyramids of Egypt are among the largest structures ever built and are one of the most important examples of Ancient Egyptian civilisation. Most were built during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. The pyramid were mostly made of limestone. The top layers were casing blocks of especially good white limestone laid ...
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Vich
Vich may mean:
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Andy Murray
Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland, known as Andy Murray. He was ranked as the number one British tennis player from 2006 to early 2018. From 7 November 2016 to 20 August 2017 Murray was number 1 in the world rankings. Murray represents Great Britain in his...
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As of December 2005
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Festival de Cannes
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Old Kingdom of Egypt
The Old Kingdom is the name for Egypt during the 3rd millennium BC when the civilization of Egypt had its first peak. It was the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley (the others being Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom of Egypt). Old Kingdom was...
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Memphis, Egypt
Memphis was the ancient capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt from its foundation until around 2200 BC and later for shorter periods during the New Kingdom. It was an administrative centre throughout ancient history. Its ancient Egyptian name was Ineb Hedj ("The White Walls"). The na...
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List of readability tests
This is a list of formulas which predict textual difficulty. Overview. These are ways of predicting how hard a piece of writing will be to understand (its textual difficulty). Research has shown that two main factors affect the ease with which texts are read. Formulae for predicting how difficult a sample of prose will...
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SMOG Index
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Gunning Fog Index
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Nome (Egypt)
A Nome (from , “district”) was an administrative part of ancient Egypt. Nome is a Greek name, used late in Egypt's history; the Egyptian name was "sepat". The division of ancient Egypt into nomes happened before 3100 BC. These nomes began as autonomous city-states, but later began to join together. According to ancient...
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Cataracts of the Nile
The cataracts of the Nile are areas between Aswan and Khartoum where the water is shallow and flows quickly. The surface is broken by numerous small boulders and stones that lie on the river bed, as well as many small rocky islets. These features create rapids or "white water," making it treacherous to travel. River c...
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Paul Gray
Paul Dedrick Gray (April 8, 1972 – May 24, 2010) was an American musician and bassist for Nu Metal band Slipknot. He was born in Los Angeles, California and moved to Slipknot's home town when he was just a baby. He was the only member of Slipknot who was not from Des Moines, Iowa. Death. On May 24, 2010, "The Des Moine...
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Smog
Smog is a type of air pollutant; the word "smog" is a combination of smoke and fog. Classic smog results from large amounts of coal burning in an area and is caused by a mixture of smoke and sulfur dioxide. London is where it first happened. Coal fires are now illegal in London, and trains are driven by other fuels. In...
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Smog (disambiguation)
Smog may also rmean:
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Island Records (disambiguation)
Island Records may refer to the following music industry record labels:
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Island Records
Island Records is a Jamaican-British record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in England for many years, but is now owned by Universal Music Group of the United States, and is operated through The Island Def Jam Music Group. Labels. This list is probably incomplete, and some of the date...
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Fiction Records
Fiction Records is a record label that was founded in 1976 by Chris Parry as a home for The Cure. Other notable acts to release on Fiction around this time were the Purple Hearts, Back To Zero, Associates, Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias and Eat (band). The label's first #1 record was "Wish" by The Cure in 1991, going #...
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Foals (band)
Foals are a dance-punk band from Oxford who play a mixture of Indie, techno and Math-Rock. The band work with Transgressive Records. TV Appearances. In August 2007, the band appeared in a mini episode of "Skins", which aired on Myspace. The band appeared on the 16th November 2007 episode of Later With Jools Holland pla...
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Polydor Records
Polydor Records is a record label currently based in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Polydor UK. Though Polydor's American branch is gone, in the United Kingdom, however, Polydor continues to sign chart-topping acts and remains one of the strongest imprints in the country — with artists such as K...
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Fascination Records
Fascination Records is a Polydor sub-label that launched in spring 2006. The record label is managed by former TOTP Magazine editor Peter Loraine. As part of Polydor Records UK, the label will concentrate on a small number of pop acts and will complement the re-activated Fiction rock imprint.
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Lists of record labels
Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, by genre, by company and by location.
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Laura Marling
Laura Marling (born 1 February 1990) is a British folk singer-songwriter. Marling won Best Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards. Early life. Marling was born in Hampshire. She went to Leighton Park School. When she was 16 she moved to London. Career. Marling has toured with a number of well-known indie artists in...
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List of record labels starting with A
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List of record labels starting with C
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List of record labels starting with D
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List of record labels starting with E
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BDD
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List of record labels starting with F
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List of record labels starting with G
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List of record labels starting with H
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Reproduction (disambiguation)
Reproduction may mean:
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Self-replication
Replication is a general word for making a copy. Self-replication is how a thing might make a copy of itself. Biological cells, in suitable environments, reproduce by cell division. The process is self-organising, given the basic machinery of a cell. During cell division, DNA is replicated and can be transmitted to off...
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The Onion Router
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Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez (born near St Quentin some time between 1450 and 1455; died St Condé-sur-l'Escaut, 27 August 1521 was a French composer. He was one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance. He changed music from the sound of medieval compositions and developed the style which led to the great compositions of the 1...
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Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Piero Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo (born 21 July 1948), is an Italian comedian and actor. He has worked in theatres and television. Life. Grillo was born in Savignone, a small town in the Province of Genoa, Liguria. Grillo became a comedian improvising a monologue at an audition. Two weeks later he was...
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Josquin
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Tor
Tor is a part of land that is made of rock. It is created by weathering, which is a form of erosion. It is mostly found near hills.
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Tor (disambiguation)
Tor may refer to:
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Palladium (band)
Palladium is an English Pop Rock band. It started in September 2006. The four band members are Peter, Rufio, Fez and Rocky. They met each other during various tours on the session musician circuit. They played their first gig together under the name, "The Peppernotes" at a Caribbean Restaurant dressed as Peter Pan in d...
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Meme
A meme ( ) is an idea or belief which spreads because one person copies it from another. Biologist and evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins invented the word "meme" in 1976. He said that tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing fashions, ways of making pots, and the technology of building arches were all examples of me...
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Analogy
An analogy is a comparison between two things that are similar in some way. When you draw an analogy between two different things, you are comparing them because you want to make a concept easier to understand. There is a difference between superficial analogies and profound analogies. Two things might look alike, but ...
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Legitimacy
The word legitimacy means something which is good and right. The thing may be right because it follows the law, a religion calls it right, or it may be naturally right. People may not agree about what is right and so they may not agree what legitimacy is and the things that are legitimate. There are different uses of t...
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Ainu
Ainu might mean:
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Eurasian
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African-American
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Afrikaner
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Pygmy
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Polynesians
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Angles people
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Jute people
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Wimbledon Championships
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. It is played in Wimbledon, a suburb of London in England, Great Britain. The Championships are unique because they are the only Grand Slam played on a grass court. Wimbledon is the third tennis grand slam of the ye...
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Moors people
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Sherpa people
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Hun people
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Mongol people
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List of counties in Alabama
The U.S. state of Alabama has sixty-seven counties. The oldest is Washington County (created June 4, 1800) and the youngest is Houston County (created February 9, 1903). Alabama was claimed by Spain, as Spanish Florida, and by England, as the Province of Carolina. The first permanent colony was made by the French on th...
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Legume
A legume is a type of dry fruit. It is usually produced by plants in the family Fabaceae. Legumes can be a variety of fruits: peas and beans are types of legumes. Description. Legumes grow from the carpel, the female reproductive part of a plant. The fruit of a legume is found inside a pod that can be split on both sid...
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Gunning fog index
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Coleman-Liau Index
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Automated Readability Index
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Bifocals
Bifocals are eyeglasses with lenses that are split between two different strengths. Usually the lower half of each lens is made to help the wearer read, while the upper one is to help the wearer see at a distance.
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Lightning rod
A lightning rod or lightning conductor is an iron rod that is used to make lightning strike it, rather than strike something else. It is part of a lightning protection system. Such a system is made of many such rods. These rods are usually placed at high points of buildings and structures. In addition, paths are made t...
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Ashland, Alabama
Ashland is an American city in the state of Alabama. It is the county seat of Clay County. The city has a population of about 2,000 people. Ashland is the hometown of Alabama's 52nd governor Bob Riley. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black is from Ashland. Geography. Ashland has an area of 7.2 miles. The city is Alabama's h...
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Bob Riley
Robert Renfroe "Bob" Riley (born October 3, 1944) is an American politician. He is a member of the Republican party. He was the 52nd Governor of Alabama from 2003 until 2011. He was first elected to office in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. Riley was born in Ashland. Personal life. He has a wife, four children (one is dea...
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Leon Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz (May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901) was an American laborer and anarchist who assassinated United States President William McKinley. Life. Czolgosz was born in either Detroit or Alpena, Michigan, to Prussian immigrant parents. He became involved in the anarchist movement and was influenced by Emma Goldman....
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Illegitimate
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Federal district
The federal district is the area around the national capital in some federal countries that are organized as capital districts and territories. A federal district is made so that no state in the country can claim to be more important than the others because the national capital is inside the state, or to stop one stat...
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Baldwin County, Alabama
Baldwin County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is named in honor of Abraham Baldwin, a member of the United States Senate from Georgia who never actually lived in Alabama. In 2020, 231,767 people lived there. The county seat (capital city) is Bay Minette. History. Baldwin County was made on December 21, 18...
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Wayne Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985 in Liverpool) is a retired English football player. Early life. Rooney was born in Liverpool, to Jeanette Marie Rooney and Thomas Wayne Rooney. He is of Irish descent, and was brought up as a Roman Catholic with his 2 younger brothers Graham and John. All three attended Our Lady ...
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Mobile County, Alabama
Mobile County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is named after a tribe of Native Americans, the "Maubila" tribe. As of 2020, 414,809 people lived there. Its county seat is Mobile. The entire county is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area. Government. The county-wide government is a 3 member d...
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Rubber Tree
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SMOG
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Mike Cross
Mike Cross (born in 1946) is an American singer and guitar player. Life. Early life. Cross was born in Maryville, Tennessee, he started playing guitar when he was at college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Style. Cross plays acoustic blues and novelty songs. He also plays funny songs like "The Sco...
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Arthur Crudup
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He wrote songs that Elvis Presley later sang. Life and career. Early life. Crudup was born in Forest, Mississippi, and worked as a migrant worker until he and his family went back to Mississippi in 1926. Early career. Cru...
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David Honeyboy Edwards
David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was an American blues guitarist and singer. Honeyboy was the last original Delta Blues guitarists still performing. Life and career. Early life. Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi, United States. He was friends with Robert Johnson, and was with him when he d...
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Houston County, Alabama
Houston County is a county in the state of Alabama, United States. It is the newest county in Alabama, as it was only created on 9 February 1903. It is named after the former state Governor George Smith Houston. The county seat is Dothan. Economy. Houston County is mostly agricultural. Peanuts, cotton and corn are the ...
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient city that was buried by Mount Vesuvius. It is currently a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The preserved site features excavated ruins of streets and buildings. On 24 October 79 AD, a volcano called Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the city and its people, killing 2,000 of them. Pompeii is one of...
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Henry Sloan
Henry Sloan (January 1870 – 13 March 1948?) was an African American musician. He played the Delta Blues and is known for teaching Charlie Patton to play the blues, and moved to Chicago after World War I. Life. Early life. David Evans says that Sloan was born in Mississippi in 1870. He moved to a Plantation near Indiano...
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Blacks and Whites' Carnival
Blacks and Whites' Carnival ("Spanish: Carnaval de Negros y Blancos") is a carnival in the Colombian city of Pasto, and was proclaimed by UNESCO as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The carnival happens each year, from January 2 to January 7. Many tourists visit it. Stages. It has...
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (birth name), (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known by the popular name of Le Corbusier, was an architect and writer born in Switzerland. In the 1930s, he became a French citizen. He is famous for his theories about modernism in architecture. His plans included the improvement of hou...
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Durham City
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina (), also Anglicised as Anna Karenin, is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy considered this book his first true novel. Characters in "Anna Karenina". Anna Arkadyevna Karenina is romantic and has a very strong character. For example, she likes to write children's books and admires art. She ...
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Anna Karenina (disambiguation)
"For movie, TV, radio, or theatrical adaptations of the novel see:" "For the cruiseferry, see M/S "Anna Karenina""
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Carnaval de Negros y Blancos
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Carnaval de negros y blancos
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Prada
Prada is an Italian fashion company (also known as a "fashion label" or "fashion house"). It has shops and products around the world. History. The company, originally named Prada Brothers, was started in 1913 by Mario Prada in Milan, Italy. Mario Prada did not believe that women should have a role in business and preve...
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Cross section (geometry)
A cross section is what one gets if one cuts an object into slices. In geometry the correct definition of "cross section" is: the intersection of a body in 2-dimensional space with a line, or of a body in 3-dimensional space with a plane. A cross section, or section is also an orthographic projection of a 3-dimensiona...
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Space (physics)
Space, in everyday language, is something that we all know. It is measured in the three dimensions of distance: length, width, and height. In modern physics, space is a "boundless four-dimensional continuum" known as spacetime. Disagreement exists about whether it is an entity (something that actually exists). It may b...
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Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known to English speakers as Horace, was a famous poet in the Roman Empire. Life. Horace was born in the small Italian town of Venusia. His father used to be a slave, but was known as a freedman because his master had freed him. They moved to Rome a shor...
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Space
Space in simple understanding is an area or volume. Space or spacing may also refer to: In science: In music: In media: People: Television: In other fields:
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Physical object
In physics, a physical object (or body) is a collection of masses, which you look at as one object only. It applies to both living and non-living things. A human's and animal's physical body is made up of organs and tissues. It is a part of a total living being, and might include its behaviour and way of thinking. The ...
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Body (disambiguation)
Body may mean:
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Ebisu
Ebisu (恵比須, 恵比寿, 夷, 戎), also known as Yebisu or Hiruko (蛭子) or Kotoshiro-nushi-no-kami (事代主神), is the Japanese god of fishermen, good luck and working men, and also the guardian of the health of children. He is one of the Seven Lucky Gods. Origins as Hiruko. Ebisu was first named "Hiruko", meaning "leech child". He was...
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Dominican peso
The Dominican peso is the money of the Dominican Republic. Its official name is "Peso oro" and its symbol is "$" with RD in front of it ("RD$") to differentiate it from other "pesos" or "dollars". The ISO 4217 for the Dominican peso is DOP. Each peso is divided into 100 "centavos" (English, "cents"). History. The first...