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Coral Springs, Florida
Coral Springs is a planned city in Florida, United States. It was founded on July 10, 1963.
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1560s
The 1560s was a decade that started on 1 January 1560 and ended on 31 December 1569. It is distinct from the decade known as the 157th decade which began on January 1, 1561 and ended on December 31, 1570.
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Affenpinscher
The Affenpinscher is a small breed of dog in the toy group. These dogs originally came from Germany. They are known to have existed since the 1600s. Their name comes from the German word "Affe," which means "monkey," because their faces remind people of monkeys. Originally, the dog was bred to be a "ratter," a type of ...
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Yorkshire Terrier
The Yorkshire Terrier or Yorkie is a small breed of terrier dog. It originated in the United Kingdom in the town of Yorkshire, from where it gets its name. They were first bred to catch mice and rats, so they are often fast and energetic. Yorkies usually weigh about 7 pounds (3.18 kg) and have a dark gray or black coat...
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The Chiffons
The Chiffons was an all-woman singing group. They started in New York City in 1960.
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Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople was a English hard rock/glam rock band. They formed in 1969 and broke up in 1976. The band began in 1969 after Ian Hunter's audition of 'Like A Rolling Stone' by Bob Dylan to join the band as the lead singer. Their first hit was 'All The Young Dudes' which was written by a close friend of theirs and als...
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Turner & Hooch
Turner & Hooch is a 1989 American criminal comedy-drama movie. It stars Tom Hanks as Detective Turner and Beasley the Dog as Hooch. It was a very successful movie from A Dog’s Life. Turner & Hooch was released by Touchstone Pictures.
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The Temptations
The Temptations are a successful R&B singing group. They formed in Detroit, USA in 1960. The Temptations have four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles and 14 Billboard R&B number-one singles. They have three Grammy Awards. The Temptations were the first Motown act to earn a Grammy Award.
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Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley or Brenda Lee (born December 11, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American pop singer. She was popular in the 1960s. She stood tall and was called “Little Miss Dynamite” because of her strong voice. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Buddy Clark
Buddy Clark (born Samuel Goldberg, July 26, 1912 – October 1, 1949) was an American popular singer of the Big Band era. He had success in the 1930s and 1940s, returning to the United States after World War II. He died in a plane crash in 1949.
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Air Supply
Air Supply is a pop music singing group. They formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1975. The current members are Russell Hitchcock (born June 15, 1949 in Melbourne) and Graham Russell (born June 11, 1950 in Nottingham, England). In 1981 they got with their song "The One That You Love" a number one hit in the United States...
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Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were the first popular punk group in Britain and one of the first bands to come from the rising U.K. punk scene of the late 1970s. They were only together for about 3 years, from late 1975 to early 1978, and they were known for their rowdy behaviour more than their music. The music they made gave many n...
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Walter Murphy
Walter Murphy (b. December 19, 1952) is a classically trained American pianist. He was born in New York City. He had a hit song in the late 1970s, "A Fifth of Beethoven".
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Coral Springs, Flordia
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1570s
The 1570s was a decade that started on 1 January 1570 and ended on 31 December 1579. It is distinct from the decade known as the 158th decade which began on January 1, 1571 and ended on December 31, 1580.
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Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress for stage, movies, and television. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She was nicknamed "The Queen of Hollywood" or the "First Lady of the American Screen" and "The Fifth Warner Brother" during her career. She is thought to be ...
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Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605 was a plan to assassinate King James I of England and VI of Scotland. Other names for the plot are The Powder Treason or The Gunpowder Plot. A group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605. This would have killed ...
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John Knox
John Knox (c. 1510 – 24 November 1572) brought the Protestant Reformation to Scotland and was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church. Knox joined the movement to change the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland. He married twice and had five children. Knox preached until he died. A fight between Catholic France and...
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List of Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is one of the Nobel Prizes which were created by Alfred Nobel. This award is decided by the Karolinska Institutet, a major medical center in Sweden. The Prize is given every year to a person or persons who have done excellent work in the area of medicine (treating or stopping d...
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List of Nobel Prize winners in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature is one of many Nobel Prizes given in honor of Alfred Nobel. Every year, a writer is chosen by the Swedish Academy to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. They choose someone who they think has written something that has great value. The prize was awarded the first time in 1901 to Sully P...
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Floods
Floods are terrible.
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Zuni
The Zuni, also called Zuñi or Ashiwi are a Native American tribe. They live near the Zuni River. This river flows into the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico, United States. They are famous for their language, which is not like other Pueblo or Native American languages. It is a language isolate.
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Tidal wave
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Great Schism
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Fallacy
A fallacy is an incorrect argument in logic and rhetoric. It gives a result which is not valid or lacks soundness. In mathematics, a fallacy can occur when the reasoning violates the condition of its applicability. Fallacies are either formal fallacies or informal fallacies. Formal fallacies. A formal fallacy is an err...
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Goat
Goat may mean:
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Myanmar
Myanmar (), formerly and occasionally called Burma in English, is a country in Southeast Asia. Its full name is the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Myanmar is the largest country in Southeast Asia that is not an island country. Its capital city is Naypyidaw and its largest city is Yangon. It is bordered by China on t...
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1460s
The 1460s was the decade that started on January 1, 1460 and ended on December 31, 1469. It is distinct from the decade known as the 147th decade which began on January 1, 1461 and ended on December 31, 1470.
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1554
1554 (MDLIV) was a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.
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Modern Greek language
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Ben Nevis
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles at high. It is in Scotland, near Fort William. The mountain forms part of the Three Peaks Challenge and attracts an estimated 100,000 climbers per year, The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic, Beinn Nibheis, which may mean poisonous or terrible. The Summit. The su...
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Snowdon
Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales. Its top is known as "Yr Wyddfa" (Old Welsh meaning "the grave"). The English name Snowdon comes from Saxon "Snow Dun", meaning "snow hill". It is in Snowdonia National Park. As the highest mountain in Wales, Snowdon is one of three mountains climbed as part of the Three Peaks C...
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Businesses
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Manaus
Manaus is the principal city of the North Region of Brazil. It is the capital of Amazonas. Manaus had a great age when latex was discovered in the Amazon region. Manaus developed economically and culturally. After that great age, latex started to be produced in other countries, particularly Malaysia and Indonesia, wher...
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Amazonas
Amazonas is the name of four places in South American nations:
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1740s
The 1740s was a decade that began on 1 January 1740 and ended on 31 December 1749. It is distinct from the decade known as the 175th decade which began on January 1, 1741 and ended on December 31, 1750.
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Tocantins (state)
Tocantins is a state in central Brazil. The state was made in 1988 out of the northern part of Goiás, and construction began on the capital, Palmas, in 1989. Palmas is much newer than most cities in the area. The state is the border between the Amazon Rainforest and Brazil's grassy flatlands. The state is very importan...
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Amazon rainforest
The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. The forest is in a basin drained mainly by the Amazon River, with 1,100 tributaries. It is a moist broadleaf forest which covers . Of this, are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory from nine nations. Most of the forest is in Br...
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Gosport
Gosport is a town in Hampshire, England. The population of Gosport is around 78,000
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Indonesian language
Indonesian language ("Bahasa Indonèsia") is the national and official language of Indonesia and is used in the entire country. It is a form of the Malay language. It is the language of official communication, taught in schools and used for broadcast in electronic and digital media. Being the top multilingual (especiall...
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All in the Family
All in the Family is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1971 to 1979. It is about a working class family who live in Queens, New York City. The main character is Archie Bunker. The show deals with many controversial issues (including abortion and racism). The sitcom was created by Norman Lear and it wa...
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Saint (disambiguation)
Saint can mean different things: Religion. Different religions & groups use the term "saint" differently. The word comes form Latin "Sanctus", which means holy. In general, saints are believed to be good examples of how people should live, or what people should do. Saints are synonymous, or are associated, with hol...
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Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is a tropical island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It is a part of the Lesser Antilles island group, and it is north of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and south of Martinique. As of 2010 there are about 174,000 people. The official language is English. Saint Lucian Creole French (Kw...
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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (astronaut). He was the first person to travel into space. Early life. Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia), on 9 March 1934. Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin in 1968 in h...
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Yangtze River
The Yangtze River, or Yangzi (Simple Chinese: 扬子江 / Traditional Chinese: 揚子江), or Chang Jiang (Simple Chinese: 长江 / Traditional Chinese: 長江), is the longest River in China and Asia, as well as the world's third longest river (after the Amazon and the Nile). It is honored as one of the two main cradles of Chinese civili...
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Sons and Daughters of Saint Lucia
"Sons and Daughters of Saint Lucia" is the national anthem of Saint Lucia. The song has been used since the country became independent in 1979.
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Soil Erosion
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1590s
The 1590s was a decade that started on 1 January 1590 and ended on 31 December 1599. It is distinct from the decade known as the 160th decade which began on January 1, 1591 and ended on December 31, 1600. Events. 1590
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Security Council
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General Assembly
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Tampico
Tampico is the main city in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. It was the site of an incident called the Tampico Affair during the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century that led to armed conflict between Mexico and the United States. About 80 years earlier Tampico was part of a less serious conflict between the tw...
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Goalkeeper
A goalkeeper is someone who protects a team's goal. There are goalkeepers in sports like football (soccer) and ice hockey, for example. The goalkeeper's mission is to prevent the opposing team from scoring a goal. Goalkeepers normally wear more protective gear than other players on the team but this is not always true....
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BE IW
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Fourth Crusade
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Omaha Beach
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Normandy invasion
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1580s
The 1580s started on 1 January 1580 and ended on 31 December 1589. It is distinct from the decade known as the 159th decade which began on January 1, 1581 and ended on December 31, 1690.
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1583
1583 (MDLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar
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1730s
The 1730s was a decade that began on 1 January 1730 and ended on 31 December 1739. It is distinct from the decade known as the 174th decade which began on January 1, 1731 and ended on December 31, 1740.
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1730
1730 (MDCCXXX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar.
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1600s
The 1600s was the decade that began on 1 January 1600 and ended on 31 December 1609. It is distinct from the decade known as the 161th decade which began on January 1, 1601 and ended on December 31, 1610
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1601
1601 (MDCI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar. It was the 1st year of the 17th century.
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1500
1500 (MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar. The year was not a leap year in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. It was the last year of the 15th century. The year was seen as being important by many Christians in Europe. They thought it would be the start of the end of the world. Their belief ...
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Mel Brooks
Melvin James Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926) also known as Mel Brooks is a Jewish American actor, comedian, writer, movie director, and producer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has directed, produced and written several movies. Most of these are comedies that make references to other movies. Legacy. Brooks is one ...
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Advert
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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is a national park in the U.S. state and island of Hawaii. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park was created in 1916. It includes The Mauna Loa, which is the Earth's biggest volcano, and Kilauea, the Earth's most active volcano. The park shows the results of millions of years of vo...
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Km²
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Pertussis
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory infection (of the lungs and breathing tubes) caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. In 2018, there were more than 151 000 cases of pertussis globally. There were 92,407 cases of whooping cough in England and Wales in 1957. In 2022, after...
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Whooping cough
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Whooping-cough
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Sickness
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Deity
A deity is thought to be a powerful spirit that controls events and the nature of things. Deities are also called gods. A female god is often called a goddess. The adjective of deity is ‘divine’. This word comes from the Latin "deus" (female: "dea"). Different religions believe in different deities. Since there are man...
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Tb
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Odin
Odin (Old Norse: "Óðinn") is the god of wisdom, knowledge, air, poetry, death, healing, royalty, divination, gallows, frenzy, magic and runic alphabet in Norse mythology. Son of Borr and the giantess (jötunn) Bestla, Odin is the chief of the Æsir (all the Germanic gods) and king of Asgard. He is married to the goddess ...
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Qazi Muhammad
Qazi Muhammad (1893 – 1947) was the Nationalist and religious Kurdish leader and the Head of the Republic of Mahabad, the second modern Kurdish state in the Middle East (after Republic of Ararat). He acted as the president of the Russian backed Republic of Mahabad, in Kurdistan of Iran (Eastern Kurdistan) in 1946. He w...
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Fresh-water
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Salt-water
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Sea water
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Brine
Brine is water that has more than 5% salt in it. It is used for preserving food. For this it is much like vinegar or sugar. Brine is also used to transport heat. Adding salt to water lowers the freezing point of the water. The solubility of salt in water depends on temperature. At 15.5°C, a saturated solution of brine ...