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DC
DC can mean many things:
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Direct Current
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Golden Horde
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Jack Adams Award
The Jack Adams Award is awarded annually to the National Hockey League coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success." It has been awarded 33 times to 28 different winners. The winner is selected by a poll of the National Hockey League Broadcasters Association at the end of the regular season. Many...
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Nightrider Bus Service
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Bagpipes
The bagpipes are a musical instrument. They are sometimes just called "pipes". They have a bag that holds air. The player keeps the bag full of air by blowing into it with a tube or pumping it with a bellows. To make music, the bag is pressed and the air comes out through a kind of flute or "chanter". There are usually...
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Entertainment Software Rating Board
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is an organization that provides age ratings in video games. It was created in 1994, and it serves in North America. Its primary goal is to inform parents and adults which video games are suitable for children. Controversy. The AO rating. Some critics come to believe that ...
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2005–06 NHL season
The 2005–06 NHL season was the 88th season of the National Hockey League. The 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs began on April 21 2006 and ended on June 19. The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Edmonton Oilers. This was the first Stanley Cup for the Hurricanes. The 2004–05 season was cancelled due to a labour dispute with the ...
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1929–30 NHL season
The 1929–30 NHL season was the thirteenth season of the National Hockey League. Ten teams played 44 games each. The Montreal Canadiens upset the heavily favoured Boston Bruins two games to none for the Stanley Cup. Regular season. Final standings. "Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals For, GA ...
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1930–31 NHL season
The 1930–31 NHL season was the fourteenth season of the National Hockey League. Ten teams played 44 games each. The Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Black Hawks three games to two in a best-of-five Stanley Cup final for their second Cup win in a row. Art Ross bitterly complained about the Stanley Cup final setup. Hi...
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National Hockey League awards
The National Hockey League presents lots of annual awards and trophies to recognize its teams and players. The oldest, and most notable, is the Stanley Cup. First awarded in 1893, the Stanley Cup is awarded to the NHL's playoff champion. The Stanley Cup is the third trophy to be used as the league's championship, as fo...
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Pizmonim
Pizmonim (, singular "pizmon") are Jewish songs and melodies sung to praise God.
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Luca Marenzio
Luca Marenzio (born Coccaglio, near Brescia, Italy, 18 October? 1553?; died Rome, 22 August 1599) was an Italian composer who lived in the late Renaissance. He was one of the best known composers of madrigals. Life. Marenzio may have been born in 1553. We think this because his father once wrote down his son’s age. The...
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Nicholas Yonge
Nicholas Yonge (born about 1560; buried October 23, 1619) was an English singer and publisher (his name is an old spelling of the word "Young" and pronounced the same way). He is most famous for publishing a collection of music called "Musica transalpina" in (1588). Music publishing was quite a new thing in those days....
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Complex
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Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" is the first episode of The Simpsons. It was first shown on television on December 17, 1989. It is the first time the Simpson family is seen on half-hour (30 minutes) television. In the episode, Bart Simpson gets a tattoo without permission from his mother Marge. Marge uses all of th...
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Treehouse of Horror (The Simpsons episode)
Treehouse of Horror is the third episode in season 2 of The Simpsons. It was first shown on October 25, 1990. It is the first-ever "Treehouse of Horror" episode and has since been followed by a yearly "Treehouse of Horror" episode. This episode features three stories. The last one is the famous "The Raven" by Edgar All...
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Characters
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Karl von Clusewitz
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WWE Divas Championship
The WWE Divas Championship was a championship in WWE competed for by women, called Divas by WWE. It was established in 2008 and Michelle McCool was the first champion. It was deactivated in 2016 in favor of the new WWE Women's Championship. Charlotte was the final champion. History. As a result of the WWE Brand Extensi...
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Alain Vigneault
Alain Vigneault (born May 14, 1961) formerly coached the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, and New York Rangers. He is currently coach of the Philadelphia Flyers.
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Lindy Ruff
Lindy Ruff (born February 17, 1960) is the current head coach of the New Jersey Devils. He is currently the longest-serving coach in the NHL, being Buffalo's coach since 1997.
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John Tortorella
John Robert Tortorella (born June 24, 1958 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American ice hockey coach currently with the Philadelphia Flyers. He coached the Tampa Bay Lightning and won both the Jack Adams Award and the Stanley Cup, with the Lightning, in 2004. He coached the New York Rangers from February 23, 2009 to M...
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Charity
Charity could mean: Places: In entertainment:
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Horseradish
Horseradish ("Armoracia rusticana") is a perennial plant of the Brassicaceae family. The plant is probably native to southeastern Europe and western Asia. It grows up to 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall, and is usually grown for its large, white, tapered root. The unbroken horseradish root has very little smell. When cut or gr...
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List of WWE Diva's Champions
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Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) contains name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features in the United States of America and its Territories. GNIS was developed by the United States Geological Survey and the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to promote...
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12 Rounds
12 Rounds is a British rock band that was started by Atticus Ross and singer Claudia Sarne.
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Emigration
Emigration is leaving one's country or area to go live in another. Emigration (leaving) from one country is usually followed by Immigration (coming into) into another. The difference between the two is the perspective (or point of view) of which country a person is leaving and which country they are going to. The urge...
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Emigrant
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Brassicales
The Brassicales are an order of flowering plants. They are in the eurosids II group of dicotyledons under the APG II system.
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Rhynchocephalia
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Testudines
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World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is known for controling the world’s governments alongside the Peoples Republic of China and the World Health Organization in the mountains of Graubünden. Important leaders from politics (such as presidents) and the economy are given an opportunit...
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Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija
The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, or in ; in Albanian: Krahina Autonome e Kosovës dhe Metohisë, commonly known as Kosovo and Metohija, or in ; in Albanian: Kosova dhe Metohija, or Kosovo, or in ; in Albanian: Kosova, for short, and abbreviated as KiM or Kosmet from "Kosovo and Metohija"; means the area of...
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Assembly of Kosovo
The Assembly of Kosovo (, "Skupština Kosova") is an institution linked to governing the territory of Kosovo. The Assembly was created by the United Nations to provide for a democratic form of government. Structure. The assembly has 120 seats. 100 seats are filled with people directly elected into the assembly. The rema...
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French Grand Prix
The French Grand Prix ("1906-1967: Grand Prix de l'ACF, 1968-2022: Grand Prix de France") was a race held as part of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) annual Formula One (F1) automobile racing championships. Grand Prix motor racing started in France. The French Grand Prix was open to international compe...
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Boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie is a solo piano-style that became very popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Boogie-woogie was developed in the southern parts of the USA. Boogie-woogie is connected with dancing. It has a regular bass figure, an ostinato and simple examples of shifts of level.
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Boogie woogie
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Country blues
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is all the acoustic, guitar forms of the blues.
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Electric blues
The electric blues is a type of blues music made different by the amplification of the guitar, the bass guitar, and/or the harmonica.
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Jump blues
Jump blues is a type of up-tempo blues music. It has a jazzly, saxophone (or brass instruments) sound, driving rhythms and shouted vocals.
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List of Formula One Grands Prix
The following is a complete list of Grands Prix which have been a part of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship since it started in 1950. At the end of the 2019 season, 1018 World Championship Grands Prix will have been held including the Indy 500 which was a part of the World Championship from 1950 until 1960. Major au...
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Soul blues
Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Singers and musicians who grew up listening to the electric blues of Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James etc. and soul singers such as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and Otis Redding, and gospel music wanted to connect their favori...
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Chicago blues
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to Delta blues. Important Chicago blues musicians. Below is a list of notable Chicago blues musicians (and groups) alphabetized by first name (or sta...
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Louisiana blues
The Louisiana blues is a type of blues music with slow rhythm which makes the sound dark and tense.
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New Orleans blues
New Orleans blues is a mix of Dixieland music and rhythms from Caribbean music. It is played on the piano or a horn instrument. The music is upbeat despite the blues-based content of many of the song choices.
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St. Louis blues
"For the hockey team, see St. Louis Blues." The St. Louis blues is a type of blues music. It is played on the piano and is closely related to the jump blues, ragtime and piano blues.
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Texas blues
Texas Blues is a type of blues. Musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan played it by using various types of guitar sounds like southern slide guitar and different melodies of blues and jazz.
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List of blues genres
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British blues
British blues is a local type of blues music in Great Britain. It started in the late 1950s and had its climax in the middle of the 1960s. History. Blues came to Britain from the 1930s onwards. Seamen brought records to British ports. During the Second World War and in the Cold War GIs brought them to Britain. During t...
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East Coast blues
East Coast blues is a type of Blues music which needs fast fingerpicking and ragtime style.
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Hexapoda
The subphylum Hexapoda, meaning "six legs", is the largest group of arthropods. It includes the insects and three much smaller groups of arthropods without wings: Collembola, Protura, and Diplura. All of these were once called insects. It seems they are polyphyletic, and evolved independently from each other. In other...
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Laurasiatheria
Laurasiatheria is a large group of placental mammals. The name comes from the area where advanced mammals evolved. This was on the northern supercontinent of Laurasia, roughly corresponding to Eurasia today plus North America. When Pangaea broke up, it split first into Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. M...
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Mysticeti
The Mysticeti are one of the two suborders of the Cetacea. They are often called baleen whales, or 'whalebone whales' or 'great whales'. Baleen whales have baleen plates made of keratin. The difference is connected with feeding. Baleen whales strain plankton out of the water, whereas the Odontoceti (toothed whales) ea...
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Cingulata
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UK blues
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Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae is a family in the mammalian order Eulipotyphla. It contains the well-known hedgehogs of Eurasia and Africa and the moonrats of South-east Asia. This family was once in the order Insectivora, but that order is not used anymore. Characteristics. Erinaceids are generally shrew-like in form, with long snouts a...
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Macropus
Macropus is a marsupial genus that belongs to the family Macropodidae. It has 14 species. The genus includes all land kangaroos, wallaroos and several species of wallaby.
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Macropods
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Soricomorpha
The Soricomorpha ("shrew-form") was a proposed biological group in the class of mammals. It includes all the shrews, solenodons and moles. It is divided into four families, one extinct. The other three families are the shrews, solenodons and moles. This followed the discovery, from sequence analysis, that the old order...
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Falcons
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Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf is a composition by Sergei Prokofiev. It was written in 1936 after his return to Russia, then part of the Soviet Union. It is a children's story. Prokofiev got the idea from Natalya Sats, who led the Moscow State Musical Theater for Children. The idea was to introduce children to the different musica...
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Israel national football team
The Israel National Football Team is the national football team of Israel and is controlled by the Israel Football Association. They Play in Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa, and in Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv. Israel has been a member of UEFA since 1994. The national team was not recognized ...
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Metroid (video game)
is an action-adventure video game made by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System on August 6, 1986. In 1987 and 1988, it was released in Europe and North America on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Years later, it was released for the Wii. "Metroid" is the first game in the "Metroid" ser...
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İzmir
İzmir is a city in the west of Turkey. It has one of the biggest seaports in the Aegean Sea region and all of Turkey. İzmir is a popular destination for tourists, who come for beaches and cultural tours in the region. It has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate ("Csa" in the Köppen climate classification). İzmir is the t...
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Antalya
Antalya is a city in southern Turkey. The city is in the Mediterranean Region and along the coast of Mediterranean Sea. 2.158.265 people live there. Antalya is the most important tourism destination in Turkey and one of the best in Mediterranean. The city created a good image and its name started to be known to tourist...
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Hatay Province
Hatay is a province in the southern part of Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast. Hatay is bordered by Syria on the south and east. The province has a mixed population of Turks and Arabs. In ancient times it was called Antioch. It joined Turkey in 1939. From 1938 to 1939, the city was an independent Arab emirate known as...
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Mural
A mural is a painting on a wall or a ceiling. Murals are usually big. They may be in public places, such as the outside of a building, or indoors.
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Tunceli Province
Tunceli Province (, , Zazaki: ; ) is a province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It was named Dersim Province before being named Tunceli Province. It is the least densely-populated province in Turkey. It has a population of 83,645 people. Tunceli Province has 8 districts: Çemişgezek, Hozat, Mazgirt, Nazımiye, ...
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List of World Heavyweight Champions (WWE)
This is the title history of the World Heavyweight Championship. The title was introduced in 2002 when WWE bought out World Championship Wrestling WCW. It was retired and made into one with the WWE Championship on December 16, 2013 when Randy Orton defeated John Cena at . It does not share the title history of the new ...
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American history
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American History
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Jesuit
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Deniz Baykal
Deniz Baykal (20 July 1938 – 11 February 2023) was a Turkish politician and academic. He was the leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the leader of the Main Opposition in Turkey. He has been the Member of Parliament for Antalya since 2002. He quit his academic career and was elected as the Member of Parlia...
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U.S. Federal Government
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United States Federal Government
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Judicial branch
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Deniz Gezmiş
Deniz Gezmiş (February 27, 1947 – May 6, 1972) was a political activist in the late 1960s. He is one of the founders of the Marxist-Leninist organization Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu, in English Turkey People's Liberation Army. Gezmis was captured by the Turkish government and the trial period started. At the end of hi...
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Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is a large, tall, white obelisk near the west part of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It was built to remember George Washington, who was the first President of the United States. It is the tallest stone structure in the world, and is 555 feet 5⅛ inches (169.294 m) tall. The monument is ma...
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Avrupa Yakası
Avrupa Yakası (English: "European Side") was a popular sitcom which broadcasted on Turkish TV. The writer of the series, Gülse Birsel, also plays the role as Aslı. The series was about Aslı, her colleauges, friends and family. The series started airing in 2004 and ended in 2009. It was aired on ATV every wednesday at 2...
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Büyükada
Büyükada () is an island in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul, Turkey. Büyükada is a tourist location for people from Istanbul for holidays. In Büyükada there are no cars allowed. The only cars are owned by the police, fire department and the other local authorities. The bicycle is the most common transport used in the...
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National Mall
The National Mall, often just called "the Mall", is an open park in the city center Washington, D.C. It has many museums, like the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art. It is found between the United States Capitol and the Washington Monument, which are about one mile apart. It is a popular place, and is used fo...
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How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother (or HIMYM) is an American situation comedy ("sitcom") that started on CBS Broadcasting on September 19, 2005. The story is set in New York City. It is about a man named Ted Mosby who tells his son and daughter how he met their mother. Ted is played by Josh Radnor and the story is narrated by Bob S...
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List of Turkish television series
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Pixelization
Pixelization is a way of hiding information from a picture. It is often used to censor pictures or movies that are inappropriate. It is also used to hide someone's face if they do not wish to be seen.
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Yıldız Technical University
Yıldız Technical University is a university in Turkey. It is found in Beşiktaş,İstanbul. The university has three campuses in Davutpasa, Yıldız and Ayazağa. It is a public university.
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Tract
A tract, is a short literary work that is written to convince somebody of an idea or belief. Overview. Tracts see applications in politics by those promoting propaganda, or in religion by those promoting their religious beliefs. They are often either left for someone to find, or handed out for free.
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Gospel tract
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Primitive Methodist Church
The Primitive Methodist Church is a body of evangelical Christians in the Methodist denomination. They began in England in the early 1800s, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834).
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Anadolu University
Anadolu University (Turkish: Anadolu Üniversitesi) is a high-degree educational institution in Eskişehir, Turkey providing distance education.
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Smithsonian
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National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States, in the National Mall. It is the most popular Smithsonian museum, and over five million people visit it each year. The museum has the most airplanes and spacecraft in the world. At the museum. There are many exhibits of famous planes or sp...
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Daniel Alfredsson
Daniel Alfredsson (born 11 December 1972) is a Swedish retired professional ice hockey right winger. He played a career total of 18 years in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Ottawa Senators and the Detroit Red Wings. He is best known for being the captain of the Senators from 1999 to 2013. He also pl...
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Termite
Termites are a suborder of social insects, the Isoptera. They are sometimes called "white ants", incorrectly, because ants belong to the Order Hymenoptera. They are "eusocial" animals, as are ants and some bees and wasps. Termites mostly feed on detritus, mostly wood, leaf litter, soil, or animal dung. There are an es...