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Halifax Explosion
The Halifax explosion took place on December 6, 1917 when the SS "Mont-Blanc", a French cargo ship loaded with explosives collided with the SS "Imo", a Norwegian ship in the harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 1,782 people were killed and over 9,000 people were injured. This was the largest man-made explosion in h...
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Kassites
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Kassite dynasty
The Kassite dynasty was ruled by the Kassites. They were an obscure mountain tribe who came to power in Babylon after the collapse of the First Dynasty of Babylon in 1595 following a Hittite sack of the city, and became rulers of northern Babylonia. The Kassites. The Kassites (Persian: کاسی‌ها) were an ancient people ...
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Rhythm Tengoku
is a Japan-only music video game/mini-game-collection. It was made by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance hand-held game console, and was later released in arcades. It was made by Nintendo's Research and Development 1. A sequel called "Rhythm Tengoku Gold" was released on the Nintendo DS in 2008. Gameplay. "Rhythm Tengo...
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Rhythm Heaven
Rhythm Heaven is a music video game made by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the sequel to "Rhythm Tengoku". Gameplay. "Rhythm Heaven" only uses the touch screen on the DS to play the stages. In the stages, the player has to do what the game wants him or her to, like in a level where the player...
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Caricature
A caricature (from the Italian "caricatura", which means "loaded portrait") is a portrait or drawing of a person that exaggerates the way they look, usually to create a humorous effect, or a political statement.
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Link (Legend of Zelda)
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Battlefield (video game series)
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Baseball Uniform
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Halo (video game series)
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Heretic (game)
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Tibia (game)
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Worms (Game)
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Computer and video game genres
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Diablo (game)
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The Legend of Zelda (game)
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Cincinnati Red Stockings
The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were baseball's first all-professional team. The team is in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Cincinnati Base Ball Club started in 1866 and played teams in the National Association of Base Ball Players 1867 to 1870. In 1969, Major League Baseball played those events officially by starting profe...
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Eddie Gaedel
Edward Carl "Eddie" Gaedel (June 8, 1925– June 18, 1961) is a former professional baseball player. Gaedel played in his only major league game on August 19, 1951, against the Detroit Tigers. He got walked on four pitches in a row and was taken out of the game. Gaedel was officially listed as standing and weighing .
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No religion
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Pho
Pho is a traditional Vietnamese rice-noodle soup dish. It is served in a bowl. It has white rice noodles in beef broth with thin cuts of beef, vegetable, and spice such as chili or chili sauce. Sometimes, tendon, tripe, meatballs, chicken leg, chicken breast, or other organs (heart, liver, etc.) are also available. Pho...
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Vietnamese Pho Noodle
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Company
A company (short for co.) is a legal group made up of persons who work together to reach a goal. They can be real people (called natural persons), or other companies (called juridical persons), or both. Companies usually have the following features: they are treated like their own person in the eyes of the law, they ha...
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United States Republican Party
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Anti-social behaviour order
An ASBO, or an Antisocial behaviour order, is a British legal term for an order that is sometimes served on people who often behave badly and have many complaints made against them because of their behaviour. The order is designed to stop them from being anti-social, which means causing distress or alarm (among other t...
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Asbo
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Foibe massacres
The Massacres of Foibe are the mass killings in which the majority of victims were ethnic Italians in 1943, after the capitulation of Italy on 8 September, and in 1945, when Yugoslav partisans under the command of Tito occupied parts of Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia. Historians have claimed the violence and conse...
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Istrian–Dalmatian exodus
Istrian-Dalmatian exodus was the diaspora or forced migration of ethnic Italians from Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia, after World War II. Those territories had been ethnically mixed since the Middle Ages. Most people were Italians, but there were also Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian and other communities. National Memorial D...
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Kochi, India
Kochi is a city in the state of Kerala, in India. It used to be called Cochin. It is also called the "Queen of the Arabian Sea". Geography. The city has the second-highest population in the state after the capital city of Kerala, Trivandrum. Kochi is the financial and commercial hub of the state. Kochi has a very old...
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Italian cultural and historic presence in Dalmatia
Italian cultural and historic presence in Dalmatia is about the Italian influence in Dalmatia. Dalmatia is now divided between Croatia, Herzegovina and Montenegro. Historical Influence. The historical influence from the Italian peninsula in Dalmatia started with the Roman conquest of Illyrian Dalmatia. Theodore Mommsen...
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Frugivore
A frugivore is an animal that prefers to eat fruit. Plant and frugivore relationship. The fruit is part of a plant's sexual reproduction cycle. Plants spend a lot of energy and nutrients in creating fruit. Fruit is produced to attract animals into eating the fruit. The animal digests the pulp but not the seeds, ensurin...
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Italian language in Croatia
The Italian language is the third most spoken language (after Croatian and Serbian) in the Republic of Croatia today. It is an officially recognized minority language in Istria County (where it is spoken by 7.69% of the population). Speaker Population. The 2001 census in Croatia reported 19,636 ethnic Italians in the c...
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Charlotte Lindstrom
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Objectivism (Ayn Rand)
Objectivism is a philosophy that was started by Ayn Rand. It has four main ideas: 1. Everything that exists has an identity meaning something about it that makes it what it is no matter how people think about it or talk about it. This is also true for things like feelings or ideas. It says that a thing is the thing whi...
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Dike (goddess)
Dike is the Greek goddess of moral justice for human being.
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Dalmatia
Dalmatia is a region of the Balkan Peninsula along the Adriatic Sea. It mostly belongs to Croatia. It goes from the island of Pag in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor (in Montenegro) in the southeast.
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Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Vienna, 7 November 1903 – Vienna, 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, naturalist, ornithologist and Nobel Prize winner. He is one of the founders of studies on animal behaviour (ethology). Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in Greylag geese and jackdaws. Biograp...
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Virtualization
Virtualization (or Virtualisation) is a word used in computing. Virtualization means that the users (programs, or real people) only see an abstraction of a computer resource. Virtualization can be done in software, or with hardware.
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Dalmatian Italians
Dalmatian Italians are Italians whose family comes from Dalmatia in today's Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Italian presence in Dalmatia. Dalmatian Italians are one of the historical ethnic groups of Dalmatia (in today's Republics of Croatia and Montenegro). They are direct descendants of the autochthon...
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Chukar
The chukar ("Alectoris chukar") is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. Other common names of this bird include 'Chukker' (sometimes misspelled as 'Chuker'), 'Chukar Partridge', 'Red-legged Partridge', 'Rock Partridge', 'Indian Hill Partridge', 'Chu...
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Soral
Soral is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 movie written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is a sequel to "The Matrix" (1999). It is a prequel to "The Matrix Revolutions" and "The Matrix Resurrections". Plot. In this movie, humans and machines are at war. The machines have taken over everywhere except for the city of Zion, which i...
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Virtualisation
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Couch gag
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Get Smart
Get Smart was a television series that was shown on NBC from September 18, 1965 to April 12, 1969. It was then shown on CBS from September 26, 1969, to September 11, 1970. It made fun of the secret agent genre. It starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as the chief. Max Smart w...
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AFL–CIO
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, called the AFL-CIO, is a group of labor unions in the United States and Canada. There are 54 national different unions in the group, and they speak for over 10 million workers. It was started in 1955, when the American Federation of Labor and th...
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ASBO
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Calomyscinae
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List of mathematical symbols
The list below has some of the most common symbols in mathematics. However, these symbols can have other meanings in different contexts other than math.
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As of December 2007
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Jonas Brothers
The Jonas Brothers are an American pop band from Wyckoff, New Jersey. It is made up of three brothers: Kevin Jonas, Joe, and Nick. The group was formed in 2005. They released four albums before disbanding: "It's About Time" in 2006, "Jonas Brothers" in 2007, "A Little Bit Longer" in 2008, and "Lines, Vines and Trying T...
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Artificial turf
Artificial turf, or synthetic turf, is a man-made (something made by humans) surface made from synthetic materials, made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that are normally played on grass. However, it is also used on lawns and in commercial applications. The main advantage of artif...
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Drugz
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Pharmaceuticals
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Church of God International (Philippines)
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YA RLY
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O rly
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O RLY owl
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Fark owl
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Oreally owl
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Ohreally owl
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O really owl
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Oh really owl
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ORLY
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NO WAI
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NO WAI!
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NO WAI!!!
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Orly owl
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O Rly
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Jonathan the Snowy Owl
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YA WAI
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RLY
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Yah rly
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Dyslectic
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Newgrange
Newgrange is a Megalithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange, County Meath, Republic of Ireland. It was built about 3200 BC. The kidney shaped mound covers an area of over one acre, 83 metres in diameter and 13 metres in height, and is surrounded by 97 kerbstones, some of which are decorated with megalithic art. The 19 metre lo...
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Onions
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David Ortiz
David Américo Ortiz Arias, also went by David Arias, (born November 18, 1975 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball designated hitter who played for the Boston Red Sox. Ortiz used to play for the Minnesota Twins from -. Nicknamed "Big Papi" or "Señor Papi", Ortiz has played in four All-...
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Mumtaz Mahal
Arjumand Banu Begum, also called Mumtaz Mahal (27 April 1593 – 17 June 1631) was the second wife of Shah Jahan, the Mughal emperor. Mumtaz Mahal (meaning "Jewel of the palace" in Persian) was the nickname her husband gave to her. Life. Mumtaz Mahal was born in April 1593 in Agra, India. Her father was the Persian noble...
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Imam
An imam (; ) is an Islamic leader, often the leader of a mosque and/or community. Similarly to spiritual leaders, the imam is the person who leads the prayer during Islamic gatherings. More often the community turn to the mosque imam, if they have an Islamic question. In smaller communities an imam could be the communi...
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Firefox 3
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Earthsea
Earthsea is a fictional place made by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story "The Word of Unbinding" in 1964, but that became more famous in her book "A Wizard of Earthsea", first written in 1968. The books that follow "A Wizard of Earthsea" are "The Tombs of Atuan", "The Farthest Shore", "Tehanu", "Tales from Earthsea"...
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OpenZaurus
OpenZaurus is a Debian-based embedded Linux distribution for the Sharp Zaurus personal mobile tool PDA. Status. On April 26, 2007, it was announced that the OpenZaurus project was over. Future development efforts are to focus on the Ångström distribution for embedded systems.
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Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American writer. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning series called the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus Award-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle. He writes in genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy.
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Hyperion Cantos
The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction books that were written by Dan Simmons. "Hyperion" received the Hugo Award for best novel in 1990 and "The Fall of Hyperion" was nominated for the Nebula Award for best novel in 1990. Three of the novels received the Locus Award for best science fiction novel: "Hyperio...
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Hyperion
Hyperion is a Titan in Greek mythology. Hyperion may also mean: In science: In fiction:
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Hyperion (Simmons novel)
Hyperion is a science fiction book that was written by Dan Simmons in 1989. It is the first book of his Hyperion Cantos series. The book won the Hugo Award award in 1989 for best novel.
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The Fall of Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion is the second science fiction book in his Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons. It was written in 1990 and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel that same year. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Book in 1991.
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Endymion (Hyperion)
Endymion is the third science fiction book written by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos series. The novel was extremely successful-within a year of its release, the book had been reprinted five times. The novel was nominated for the 1996 British Fantasy Award.
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The Rise of Endymion
The Rise of Endymion is a 1997 science fiction book by Dan Simmons. It is the fourth and last book in his "Hyperion Cantos" series. The book was nominated for the 1997 British Fantasy Award and the 1998 Hugo Award for Best Book.
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Predicate logic
In logic and philosophy, predicate logic is a system of mathematical logic. It uses predicates to express the state of certain things, which are "incomplete propositions" with a placeholder for objects or subjects that must be inserted in order to obtain a valid proposition. The term "predicate logic" has 2 meanings: ...
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Arapaho language
The Arapaho language (also Arapahoe) is a Plains Algonquian language (an areal rather than genetic grouping) spoken by elders in Wyoming. It is now spoken very little, and is in danger of becoming extinct.
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Assamese language
Assamese ( ; romanized: "Ôxômiya") () is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language, spoken most in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the main language of Assam. It is spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Assamese culture is deeply intertwined with the language, and it serve...
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Avar language
The Avar language (self-designation "language of the mountains" or Авар мац "Avar language") belongs to the Avar-Andi-Tsez subgroup of the Alarodian Northeast-Caucasian (or Nakh-Dagestani) language family. It is spoken most in the eastern and southern parts of the Russian Caucasus republic of Dagestan, and the Balaken,...
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Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani ( ; , , ) or Azeri ( ), also referred to as Azerbaijani Turkic or Azerbaijani Turkish (, , ), is a Turkic language that is spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Dagestan in Russia. Azerbaijani is also spoken in Dage...
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Azari
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Azeri Turkic
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Azerbaijani Turkic
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Arapahoe language
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Assyro-Babylonian