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Shiver me timbres
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Right angles
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Carcharodontosaurus
Carcharodontosaurus was a giant carnivorous dinosaur of the Early Cretaceous period, 100 - 94 million years ago. It was about 12-12.5 meters (39-41 ft) long and had a weight of about 7 tons, and more than 4 metres tall. Fossils of this Cretaceous dinosaur were found in North Africa by a paleontologist named Ernst Strom...
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Pythagoras' Theorem
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.com
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Nastika
Astika (Sanskrit: : "orthodox") and Nastika: ("heterodox") are technical terms in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons, according to whether they accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures, or not. By this definition, , , , Yoga, and Vedanta are classified as "astika" school...
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Capsicum
Capsicum is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Some of these plants are used as spices, vegetables, or drugs. The fruit of "Capsicum" plants have a variety of names. They are often called chili pepper, red or green pepper, or just pepper in Britain and the US. The large mild form is called "be...
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Cinnamomum
Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs. All of them belong to the same family as the laurel, Laurelaceae. The species in the genus have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark. There are over 300 species in the genus. They can be found in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, Oceania, Asia a...
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King of germany
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London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange in London, England. It is the biggest stock exchange in the Europe and third largest in the world. The Royal Exchange, London was officially opened on 23 January 1571 by Queen Elizabeth I. This is where the regulated stock market started. From 1801 dealers had to pay...
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Fruitcake
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The 4400
The 4400 was a science fiction television series. The series ran from 2004 to 2007. The story. "The 4400" is a reference to 4400 people who disappeared mysteriously over the last century. These people all returned near Seattle, Washington at the same time from a large ball of light. They had not gotten older. After a s...
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Foyle's War
Foyle's War is a British detective drama television show. It started on 27 October 2002 and ended on 18 January 2015. The show is set during and after World War II. On 12 January 2015, it was announced by ITV that they would not commission any more episodes because of how much production costs and their intention to ai...
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Giant anteater
The giant anteater, "Myrmecophaga", is an animal that lives in Central and South America. It is also known as the ant bear. It the only mammal without teeth. Its diet consists of termites and ants, hence the name. It is the largest anteater: its length is between 182 cm and 217 cm. Males weigh between 33 and 41 kg, fe...
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Sanctuary (TV series)
Sanctuary is a Canadian science-fiction-fantasy television series. The show originally started out as a no-cost eight-webisode series and later expanded into a television-based 13-episode season after Syfy decided to buy the rights to it. The show ran for 4 seasons before Syfy said that the show had been cancelled.
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lamb was elected to Parliament in 1806 as a member of the Whig party. Lamb served as Irish Secretary in the government. Lamb became Lord Melbourne when his father died. His family home was in Melbourne i...
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California in the United States. The term originally meant the innovators and manufacturers of silicon chip who worked here, but now means all the high-tech businesses in the area, and for the high-tech sector generally. Silicon Valley includes the no...
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Signal (biology)
A signal in biology is any kind of coded message sent from one organism to another, or from one place in an organism to another place. In biology, especially in electrophysiology, a signal or biopotential is an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength), that is caused by chemical reactions of charged ion...
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (3 February 1830 - 22 August 1903) was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868. Salisbury served as Prime Minister three times for a total of over thirteen years. W...
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Electrophysiology
Electrophysiology is the study of the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues. It involves measurements of voltage change or electrical current flow on a wide variety of scales from single ion channel proteins, to whole tissues like the heart. In neuroscience, it includes measurements of the electrical ac...
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Ion channel
An ion channel is a pore-forming protein that helps to establish and control the small voltage gradient across the plasma membrane of all living cells (see resting potential) by allowing the flow of ions down their electrochemical gradient. They are present in the membranes that surround all biological cells. An ion ch...
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Television series
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Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, PC (30 May 1757–15 February 1844) was a British statesman. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804. His father was a physician specialising in the treatment of mental illness. His father was one of George III's doctors and this resulted in Addington being kn...
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC (1 October 1735 – 14 March 1811) was a British Whig statesman. He was one of a handful of dukes who were Prime Minister of Great Britain. Education. He studied at Westminster School and then got a degree from Peterhouse College in Cambridge.
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William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville PC (25 October 1759–12 January 1834), was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. Grenville was the son of Prime Minister George Grenville. He was educated at Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn.
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Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (7 June 1770–4 December 1828) was an English politician and the longest serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Robert Walpole held office for longer, but only as Prime Minister of Great Britain) During his time as Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, Liverpool became kn...
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Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon PC (1 November 1782 – 28 January 1859) was a British statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (when he was known as Lord Goderich).
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769–14 September 1852) was a soldier and statesman. He was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain. His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the top rank of Britain's milita...
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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845) was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. Earl Grey tea, a type of tea with a bergamot orange flavour is named after him. He was the son of Major General Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey.
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878) was an English Whig and Liberal politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Biography. Russell was known as "Lord John Russell", which is called a courtesy title. As the third son of the then Duk...
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. He began his parliamentary career as a Tory and ended it as a Liberal. He is best remembered for his leading of British fo...
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, KG, KT, PC (28 January 1784–14 December 1860) was a Scottish Tory/Peelite politician. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.
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Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC (29 March 1799–23 October 1869) was an English statesman. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times. To date, Derby was the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. Derby is one of only four British Prime Ministers to have bee...
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Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (7 May 184721 May 1929) was a British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, also known as Archibald Primrose (1847–1851), Lord Dalmeny (1851–1868). After an education at Eton and Oxford, Dalmeny succeeded to his grandfather's Scottish earldom in 186...
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Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (7 September 1836 - 22 April 1908) was a Scottish- born British Liberal statesman. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 5 December 1905 until resigning because of bad health on 3 April 1908. Campbell-Bannerman was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1836 as Henry Campbell. The ...
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Pitch
Pitch can mean:
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States government that is responsible for the United States Census. The Census Bureau is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. Legal mandate. The Constitution of the United States says that the population must be cou...
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Signal processing
Signal processing is the analysis, interpretation and manipulation of signals. Signals of interest include sound, images, biological signals such as ECG, radar signals, and many others. Processing of such signals includes storage and reconstruction, separation of information from noise (e.g., aircraft identification by...
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Henri Troyat
Henri Troyat, born Levon Aslan Torossian or Lev Aslanovich Tarasov, (1 November 1911 – 2 March 2007) was a French author, biographer, historian and novelist. Originally, his family was from Armenia. He was born in Moscow. His family fled Russia, because they feared the coming revolution. After a long exile, the family ...
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Levon Aslan Torossian
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Lev Aslanovich Tarasov
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Nobel prize
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Tennis player
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Rondônia
Rondônia is a state in Brazil. It is in the northwest of the country. To the west is the state of Acre. To the north is the state of Amazonas. In the east is Mato Grosso. In the south is Bolivia. Its capital is Porto Velho. The state was named after Candido Rondon. Other cities include: Geography. The state is covered ...
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Singular
In linguistics, noun phrases have grammatical number. Singular is one kind of grammatical number. A singular noun phrase usually refers to something that you would count as one only (e.g., "one time", "a glass", "the sun", "my mother", "Jennifer"). Noun phrases that cannot be counted are also singular in English (e.g.,...
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Ovaries
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Cantons of Switzerland
Switzerland is divided into 26 different territories called "cantons". A canton is similar to a state in the United States. In the past, each canton had its own army and money. This changed in 1848 when Switzerland finished the Sonderbund civil war and changed to the structure it has now. The cantons Uri, Schwyz, Unter...
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Canton of Berne
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Nervous system
The nervous system is a body system which sends signals around the body. It lets animals respond to what is around them. The "central nervous system" is the brain and the spinal cord. It is present in almost all animals. It is there to process the input from the senses, and to coordinate movement. Neuroscience is the s...
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List of Torchwood episodes
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Alexandre Dumas, fils
Alexandre Dumas, fils (fils is French for "son"), (27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père (père is French for "father"). Like his father, Alexandre Dumas, fils was a celebrated author and playwright. Alexandre Dumas "fils" was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Catheri...
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Unit of Measurement
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Conjunctivitis
Conjunctivitis (also known as pinkeye) is a medical condition when the "Conjunctiva" (a transparent membrane that lines the outer eye, and inner part of the eyelid) becomes inflamed, which can cause it to become pink or red. The cause of conjunctivitis can be either bacterial or viral infection.
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Cerulean
Cerulean is a range of colours from teal-blue, sky-blue, bright blue, or azure to deep cyan. The word cerulean comes from the Latin word "caeruleum", which means "sky" or "heavens". This was in turn from Latin "caeruleus" deep blue: resembling the blue of the sky. In classical times, this term was used to describe blue...
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John Barrowman
John Scot Barrowman (born 11 March 1967) is a Scottish-American actor, author, presenter and singer. Early life. Barrowman was born on 11 March 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, but moved to Joliet, Illinois, United States when he was 8 years old and grew up there. He is citizen of both the United Kingdom and ...
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Swamp
A swamp is a type of wetland ecosystem. Swamps are forested, low, spongy land generally saturated with water and covered with trees and aquatic plants. Big parts of swamps are often flooded with water. Swamps are nesting and breeding grounds for birds and other animals. The water of a swamp may be fresh water, brackish...
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Goya
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Picasso
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Dali
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Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a famous Mexican painter and muralist. He was born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato. Rivera is famous for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," for the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. Before he finished the mural, people saw that there was an ima...
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David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (December 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico – January 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a famous painter and muralist. He was famous for large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.
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Hieroglyphs
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Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold (or A7X) is an American heavy metal rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band is sometimes called "A7X", which is a title started by the band's guitarist, Zacky Vengeance. Avenged Sevenfold's first few albums were metalcore, before the band became more hard rock/heavy metal...
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Siege
A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress. The purpose is to conquer by starvation, lack of water, or by a well-prepared assault. Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict. The defender inside has a strong, static, defensive position. Negotiation between combatants is common. A siege happe...
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Monotheists
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Thorin Oakenshield
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Superfamily
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Hull
A hull can be: In mathematics: Other places: There are several people named Hull: There is also:
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River Hull
The River Hull is a river in Yorkshire in the north of England. It has its source in the Yorkshire Wolds. It joins the River Humber estuary in the centre of Kingston upon Hull. The river separates the industrial area of the city, and several opening bridges have been constructed. These continue to cause traffic delays ...
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Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the body of a ship or boat. It is a central concept in floating vessels as it provides the buoyancy that keeps the vessel from sinking. General features. Almost all watercraft, from small boats to the largest ships, have a general form that is necessary for stability and efficient propulsion, which includes: ...
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Buoyancy
In physics, buoyancy (lit: float force) () is a force on an object making that object rise or move upward. It comes from the Spanish word for "float", "boyar". Buoyancy is made by the difference in pressure put on the object by the Fluid or air that the object is in. The net upward buoyancy force is equal to the magnit...
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Asura
The Asuras are a group of supernatural creatures in Hinduism and Buddhism. In today's beliefs and assumptions, the Asuras are demons. But this was not always that way. The idea of the Asuras is very, very old, from long before the time people learned how to read and write. The Asuras only became demons after much time ...
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Intercontinental ballistic missile
An intercontinental ballistic missile (acronym: ICBM) is a missile that can travel so far that it be used from one continent to another. The United States and the Soviet Union made thousands of them during the Cold War, primarily to deliver nuclear weapons. An ICBM is guided, which means it can be controlled to hit a t...
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Elevation
When talking about geography the elevation of a certain point is how high it is compared to some reference point. Very often, the reference point is mean sea level, the level of the ocean midway between high and low tide on an average day. Most land has a positive elevation, which means it is above sea level. A few des...
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Bastila Shan
Bastila Shan is a character from the "Star Wars" universe. Bastila Shan was born in the year 3,979 BBY. She is the daughter of Helena Shan and an unknown treasure hunter who joined the Jedi Order. She became a valuable member to the Jedi Order despite her young age due to her mastery of Battle Meditation. During the Je...
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Darth Revan
Darth Revan is a fictional character from the "Star Wars" universe and . Revan was a Jedi Knight and general who turned to the dark side with his padawan Darth Malak in the Mandalorian Wars. After the death of Mandalore the Ultimate, Revan claimed the title of "Dark Lord of the Sith". He then founded a powerful new Sit...
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Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods () is a business that makes packaged food. They own Oscar Mayer. It was started in 2012 as a spin-off of Mondelez. It was bought by H.J. Heinz in 2015.
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Soft drink
Soft drinks (also known as pop, soda, tonic, soda pop, fizzy drinks, or minerals) are "fizzy" drinks made from concentrates and sugar. When they are made, carbon dioxide gas is added which makes them "fizzy". This process is called carbonation. Some soft drinks have flavors. Some popular types of soda are Sprite, Mount...
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Pepsi-Cola
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Academy Award for Best Picture (1920s)