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Aargau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aargau
2,467
Aargau. The Canton of Aargau (German "Kanton"; sometimes anglicized Argovia; see also other names) is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. It is situated by the lower course of the Aare, which is why the canton is called Aar-gau (meaning "Aare province"). It is one of the most densely populated regions of ...
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Ababda_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ababda_people
2,471
Ababda people. The Ababda or Ababde – the Gebadei of Pliny, and possibly the Troglodytes of other classical writers – are nomads living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Aswan in Egypt and north Sudan. They are a subgroup of the Beja people who are bilingual in Beja and Arabic. Overview. ...
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American_Quarter_Horse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Quarter_Horse
2,472
American Quarter Horse. The American Quarter Horse is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name came from its ability to outdistance other horse breeds in races of a quarter mile or less; some have been clocked at speeds up to 55 mph (88.5 km/h). The American Quarter Horse is the mos...
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Abacá
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abac%C3%A1
2,473
Abacá. Abacá (;), binomial name "Musa textilis", is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. The plant, also known as Manila hemp, has great economic importance, being harvested for its fiber, also called Manila hemp, extracted from the leaf-...
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Abaddon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon
2,474
Abaddon. The Hebrew term "Abaddon" (, '), and its Greek equivalent "Apollyon" (, "Apollyon"), appears in the Bible as both a place of destruction and as the name of an angel. In the Hebrew Bible, "abaddon" is used with reference to a bottomless pit, often appearing alongside the place שאול ("sheol"), meaning the realm ...
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Abadeh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadeh
2,475
Abadeh. Abadeh (, also Romanized as Ābādeh) is a city in and the capital of Abadeh County, in Fars Province, Iran. Abadeh is situated at an elevation of in a fertile plain on the high road between Isfahan and Shiraz, from the former and from the latter. At the 2006 census, its population was 52,042, in 14,184 families....
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Abae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abae
2,476
Abae. Abae (, "Abai") is an ancient town in the northeastern corner of Phocis, in Greece. It was famous in antiquity for its oracle of Apollo Abaeus, one of those consulted by Croesus, king of Lydia, and Mardonius, among others. History. It was rich in treasures, but was destroyed by the Persians in the invasion of Xer...
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Abakan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abakan
2,477
Abakan. Abakan (; Khakas:, "Ağban") is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 165,214—a slight increase over 165,197 recorded during the 2002 Census and ...
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Arc_de_Triomphe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Triomphe
2,482
Arc de Triomphe. The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (, "Triumphal Arch of the Star") is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named "Place de l'Étoile"), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. It should not be confused with a smaller arch, the Arc ...
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Amazonite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonite
2,487
Amazonite. Amazonite (sometimes called "Amazon stone") is a green variety of microcline feldspar. The name is taken from that of the Amazon River, from which certain green stones were formerly obtained, but it is doubtful whether green feldspar occurs in the Amazon area. Amazonite is a mineral of limited occurrence. Fo...
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Ambrosius_Bosschaert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosius_Bosschaert
2,490
Ambrosius Bosschaert. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (18 January 1573 – 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Biography. He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg (1587–1613), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution...
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Anthroposophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy
2,493
Anthroposophy. Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world that is accessible by direct experience through inner development. More specifically, it aims to develop faculties of perceptive imagination, inspiration and intu...
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Aurochs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
2,494
Aurochs. The aurochs (or; pl. aurochs, or rarely aurochsen, aurochses), also urus, ure ("Bos primigenius"), is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is the ancestor of domestic cattle. The species survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs died in the Jaktorów For...
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Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode
2,499
Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is, according to the ATM Forum, "a telecommunications concept defined by ANSI and ITU (formerly CCITT) standards for carriage of a complete range of user traffic, including voice, data, and video signals". ATM was developed to meet the needs of the Broadband ...
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Anus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anus
2,500
Anus. The anus (, which is from Proto-Indo-European "*h₁eh₂no-", meaning "ring") is an opening at the opposite end of an animal's digestive tract from the mouth. Its function is to control the expulsion of feces, unwanted semi-solid matter produced during digestion, which, depending on the type of animal, may include: ...
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Acantharea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acantharea
2,502
Acantharea. The Acantharea (Acantharia) are a group of radiolarian protozoa, distinguished mainly by their skeletons. Structure. These are composed of strontium sulfate crystals, which do not fossilize, and take the form of either ten diametric or twenty radial spines. The central capsule is made up of microfibrils arr...
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African_National_Congress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress
2,503
African National Congress. The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing social democratic political party. It has been the ruling party of post-apartheid South Africa on the national level since 1994, including the election of Nelson Mandela as president from 1994 to 1999. In the 2004...
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Amphetamine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine
2,504
Amphetamine. Amphetamine (contracted from) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity. Amphetamine was discovered in 1887 and exists as two enantiomers: levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine. "Amphetamine" ...
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Asynchronous_communication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_communication
2,506
Asynchronous communication. In telecommunications, asynchronous communication is transmission of data, generally without the use of an external clock signal, where data can be transmitted intermittently rather than in a steady stream. Any timing required to recover data from the communication symbols is encoded within ...
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Artillery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery
2,508
Artillery. Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach fortifications, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines. As technology improved, lighter, more mobile field arti...
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Arnulf_of_Carinthia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulf_of_Carinthia
2,510
Arnulf of Carinthia. Arnulf of Carinthia (c. 850 – 8 December 899) was the Carolingian King of East Francia from 887, the disputed King of Italy from 894 and the disputed Holy Roman Emperor from 22 February 896 until his death at Regensburg, Bavaria. Birth and illegitimacy. Arnulf was the son of Carloman, King of Bavar...
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Alexanderplatz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexanderplatz
2,511
Alexanderplatz. File:Stadtviertel in Berlin-Mitte.png|thumb|250px|Neighborhoods in Berlin-Mitte: Old Cölln [1] (with Museum Island [1a], Fisher Island [1b]), Altberlin [2] (with Nikolaiviertel [2a]), Friedrichswerder [3], Neukölln am Wasser [4], Dorotheenstadt [5], Friedrichstadt [6], Luisenstadt [7], Stralauer Vorstad...
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Asian_Development_Bank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Development_Bank
2,512
Asian Development Bank. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966 which is headquartered in Ortigas Center located in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines, and maintains 31 field offices around the world, to promote social and economic development in Asia. The ban...
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Aswan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan
2,514
Aswan. Aswan (; '; Ancient Egyptian: '; '; '), formerly spelled "Assuan", is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate. Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dams on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract. The modern city has expanded and includes th...
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Adelaide_of_Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_of_Italy
2,519
Adelaide of Italy. Adelaide of Italy (931 – 16 December 999), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great and was crowned as the Holy Roman Empress with him by Pope John XII in Rome on February 2, 962. Empress Adelaide was perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 1...
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Airbus_A300
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A300
2,524
Airbus A300. The Airbus A300 is a short- to medium-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliner that was developed and manufactured by Airbus. Formally announced in 1969 and first flying in October 1972, it holds the distinction of being the world's first twin-engined widebody airliner; it was also the first product of Air...
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Agostino_Carracci
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Carracci
2,526
Agostino Carracci. Agostino Carracci (or Caracci'") (16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci. He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the competing school to the more gritty view of nature as exp...
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Adenylyl_cyclase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylyl_cyclase
2,528
Adenylyl cyclase. Adenylyl cyclase (, also commonly known as adenyl cyclase and adenylate cyclase, abbreviated AC) is an enzyme with key regulatory roles in essentially all cells. It is the most polyphyletic known enzyme: six distinct classes have been described, all catalyzing the same reaction but representing unrela...
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Alexandra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra
2,529
Alexandra. Alexandra (Greek:) is the feminine form of the given name Alexander, which is a romanization of the Greek name ("Alexandros"). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ("alexein") "to defend" and ("anēr") "man" (GEN "andros"). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "protect...
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Articolo_31
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articolo_31
2,536
Articolo 31. Articolo 31 was a band from Milan, Italy, melting hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms. They are one of the most popular Italian hip hop groups. Band history. Articolo 31 were formed by rapper J-Ax (real name Alessandro Aleotti) and DJ Jad (Vito Luca Perrini). In the spoken intro of "St...
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Alexander_Kerensky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kerensky
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Alexander Kerensky. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (,; 4 May 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and politician who served as the second Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government between July and November 1917. A leader of the moderate-socialist Trudoviks faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party...
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Ansgar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansgar
2,544
Ansgar. Saint Ansgar (8 September 801 – 3 February 865), also known as Anskar or Saint Anschar, was a Germanic Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. The See of Hamburg was designated a mission to bring Christianity to Northern Europe, and Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North". Life. Ansgar was the son of a noble Fr...
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Automated_theorem_proving
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving
2,546
Automated theorem proving. Automated theorem proving (also known as ATP or automated deduction) is a subfield of automated reasoning and mathematical logic dealing with proving mathematical theorems by computer programs. Automated reasoning over mathematical proof was a major impetus for the development of computer sci...
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Agent_Orange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
2,547
Agent Orange. Agent Orange—or Herbicide Orange (HO)—is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. It was a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. During the late 1940s and...
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Astronomical_year_numbering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering
2,551
Astronomical year numbering. Astronomical year numbering is based on AD/CE year numbering, but follows normal decimal integer numbering more strictly. Thus, it has a year 0, the years before that are designated with negative numbers and the years after that are designated with positive numbers. Astronomers use the Juli...
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Adam_of_Bremen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_of_Bremen
2,552
Adam of Bremen. Adam of Bremen (also: Adamus Bremensis) was a German medieval chronicler. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. He is most famous for his chronicle "Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum" ("Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church"). Little is known of his life other than hin...
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Ab_urbe_condita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita
2,553
Ab urbe condita. Image:Antoninianus-Pacatianus-1001-RIC 0006cf.jpg|thumb|300px|Antoninianus of Pacatianus, usurper of Roman emperor Philip in 248. It bears the legend ROMAE AETER[NAE] AN[NO] MILLESIMO] ET PRIMO, "To eternal Rome, in its one thousand and first year". "ab urbe condita" (related to "anno urbis conditae"; ...
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ARY_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARY_Group
2,558
ARY Group. The ARY Group is a Dubai-based holding company founded by a Pakistani businessman, Haji Abdul Razzak Yaqoob. Abdul is the Chief Executive Officer and owner of the Group. ARY is a diversified group with interests in several sectors, though it is most famous for its contribution to Pakistani television. Take o...
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Arapaoa_Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaoa_Island
2,559
Arapaoa Island. Arapaoa Island, formerly known as Arapawa Island, is a small island located in the Marlborough Sounds, at the north east tip of the South Island of New Zealand. The island has a land area of. Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route ...
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Administrative_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_law
2,560
Administrative law. Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. Government agency action can include rulemaking, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda. Administrative law is considered a branch of public law. As a body of law, ad...
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Arthur_Phillip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Phillip
2,563
Arthur Phillip. Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 173831 August 1814) was a Royal Navy officer, the first Governor of New South Wales and led the colonisation of what is now Australia and founded the British penal colony that later became the city of Sydney, Australia. After much experience at sea, Phillip sailed with...
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Angus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus
2,573
Angus. Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross. Main industries include agriculture and fishing. Global pharmaceuticals company GSK has a significant presence in Montrose...
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André_the_Giant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant
2,575
André the Giant. André René Roussimoff (May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993), known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. He most famously feuded with Hulk Hogan, culminating at WrestleMania III, and his best-remembered film role was that of Fezzik, the giant in "The Princess Bride". His size wa...
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Adrastea_(moon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrastea_(moon)
2,577
Adrastea (moon). Adrastea (;), also known as, is the second by distance, and the smallest of the four inner moons of Jupiter. It was discovered in photographs taken by "Voyager 2" in 1979, making it the first natural satellite to be discovered from images taken by an interplanetary spacecraft, rather than through a tel...
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Apache_HTTP_Server
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server
2,581
Apache HTTP Server. The Apache HTTP Server, colloquially called Apache (), is the world's most used web server software. Originally based on the NCSA HTTPd server, development of Apache began in early 1995 after work on the NCSA code stalled. Apache played a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web, quickly...
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Arbroath_Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbroath_Abbey
2,583
Arbroath Abbey. Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey. It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court. It was William's onl...
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Accounting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting
2,593
Accounting. Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing and communication of financial information about economic entities. The modern field was established by the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in 1494. Accounting, which has been called the "language of business", measures the results of an organizati...
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Ant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
2,594
Ant. A phylogeny of the extant ant subfamilies. ‡ The previous dorylomorph subfamilies were synonymized under Dorylinae by Brady "et al". in 2014 Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the m...
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Arbitration_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration_in_the_United_States
2,597
Arbitration in the United States. Arbitration, in the context of United States law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution—specifically, a legal alternative to litigation whereby the parties to a dispute agree to submit their respective positions (through agreement or hearing) to a neutral third party (the arbitra...
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Adversarial_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_system
2,598
Adversarial system. The adversarial system or adversary system is a legal system used in the common law countries where two advocates represent their parties' positions before an impartial person or group of people, usually a jury or judge, who attempt to determine the truth of the case. It is in contrast to the inquis...
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Abano_Terme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abano_Terme
2,602
Abano Terme. Abano Terme (known as "Abano Bagni" until 1924) is a town and "comune" in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei; it is southwest by rail from Padua. Abano Terme's population is 19,062 (2001) (in 1901 it was only 4,556). The town's hot springs and mud ...
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Abated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abated
2,604
Abated. Abated, an ancient technical term applied in masonry and metal work to those portions which are sunk beneath the surface, as in inscriptions where the ground is sunk round the letters so as to leave the letters or ornament in relief. "From 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"
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Abati
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abati
2,605
Abati. Abati is a surname. It was used by an ancient noble family of Florence.
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Abatis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abatis
2,606
Abatis. An abatis, abattis, or abbattis is a field fortification consisting of an obstacle formed (in the modern era) of the branches of trees laid in a row, with the sharpened tops directed outwards, towards the enemy. The trees are usually interlaced or tied with wire. Abatis are used alone or in combination with wir...
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Antoine_Thomson_d'Abbadie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Thomson_d%27Abbadie
2,607
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie. Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie d'Arrast (3 January 1810 – 19 March 1897) was a French explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century. He was the older brother of Arnaud Michel d'Abbadie, with whom he traveled...
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Abba_Mari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Mari
2,608
Abba Mari. Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph, was a Provençal rabbi, born at Lunel, near Montpellier, towards the end of the 13th century. He is also known as Yarhi from his birthplace (Hebrew "Yerah", i.e. moon, lune), and he further took the name Astruc, Don Astruc or En Astruc of Lunel. The descendant of men learned in...
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Abbas_II_of_Egypt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_II_of_Egypt
2,609
Abbas II of Egypt. Abbas II Hilmi Bey (also known as ‘Abbās Ḥilmī Pasha) () (14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944) was the last Khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan, ruling from 8 January 1892 to 19 December 1914. In 1914, after Turkey joined the Central Powers in World War I, the nationalist Khedive was removed by ...
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Abbas_Mirza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Mirza
2,610
Abbas Mirza. Abbas Mirza () (August 26, 1789 – October 25, 1833), was a Qajar crown prince of Persia. He developed a reputation as a military commander during the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813 and the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828 with neighbouring Imperial Russia, as well as through the Ottoman-Persian War of 1821-1...
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George_Abbot_(bishop)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Abbot_(bishop)
2,613
George Abbot (bishop). George Abbot (19 October 1562 – 5 August 1633) was an English divine who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633. He also served as the fourth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1612 to 1633. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "[a] sincere but narrow-minded Calv...
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Adware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adware
2,616
Adware. Adware, or advertising-supported software, is any software package that automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author. The advertisements may be in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process. The functions may be des...
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Aeacus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeacus
2,618
Aeacus. Aeacus (; also spelled Eacus;) was a mythological king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. He was the father of Peleus, Telamon and Phocus and was the grandfather of Achilles and Telemonian Ajax. Mythology. Aeacus was the son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus. He was born on the is...
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Aeclanum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeclanum
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Aeclanum. Aeclanum (also spelled Aeculanum,) was an ancient town of Samnium, southern Italy, c. 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia. It lies in Passo di Mirabella, near the modern Mirabella Eclano. Location. Aeclanum was on a promontory naturally defended, to some extent, by a steep slope on the south ...
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Aedesius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedesius
2,620
Aedesius. Aedesius (, died 355 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family. Career. Aedesius was born into a wealthy Cappadocian family, but he moved to Syria, where he was apprenticed to Iamblichos. He quickly became his best pupil and the two became friends. Aedesius' own philosop...
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Aedicula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedicula
2,621
Aedicula. In ancient Roman religion, an "aedicula" (plural "aediculae") is a small shrine. The word "aedicula" is the diminutive of the Latin "aedes", a temple building or house. Many aediculae were household shrines that held small altars or statues of the Lares and Penates. The Lares were Roman deities protecting the...
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Aedui
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedui
2,622
Aedui. The Aedui, Haedui, or Hedui () were a Gallic people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the country between the Arar (Saône) and Liger (Loire), in today's France. Their territory thus included the greater part of the modern departments of Saône-et-Loire, Côte-d'Or and Nièvre. Geography. The country of the Aedui...
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Aegadian_Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegadian_Islands
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Aegadian Islands. The Aegadian Islands (; Sicilian: "Ìsuli Ègadi",, meaning the islands of goats'") are a group of five small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the cities of Trapani and Marsala, with a total area of. The Island of Favignana ("Aegusa"), the large...
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Aegean_civilizations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_civilizations
2,624
Aegean civilizations. Aegean civilization is a general term for the European Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea. There are three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland. Crete is associated with the Minoan civil...
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Aegeus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegeus
2,626
Aegeus. In Greek mythology, Aegeus (;) or Aegeas (;), was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens. The "goat-man" who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens. His reign. Upon the death of the king, Pandion...
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Aegina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegina
2,627
Aegina. Aegina (;, "Aígina") is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born on the island and became its king. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era. Municipality. Th...
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Aegis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis
2,628
Aegis. The aegis or aigis (; English pronunciation:), as stated in the "Iliad", is carried by Athena and Zeus, but its nature is uncertain. It had been interpreted as an animal skin or a shield, sometimes bearing the head of a Gorgon. There may be a connection with a deity named Aex "or Aix", a daughter of Helios and a...
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Aegisthus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegisthus
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Aegisthus. Aegisthus (;; also transliterated as Aigisthos) is a figure in Greek mythology. He was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. The product of an incestuous union motivated by his father's rivalry with the house of Atreus for the throne of Mycenae, Aegisthus murdered Atreus to restore his father to pow...
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Aegospotami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegospotami
2,630
Aegospotami. Aegospotami (Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί) or Aegospotamos (i.e. "Goat Streams") is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont (Modern Turkish "Çanakkale Boğazı"), northeast of Sestos. At its mouth was the scene of the decisive battle in 405 BC by which Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet, end...
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Aelia_Capitolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_Capitolina
2,632
Aelia Capitolina. Aelia Capitolina (; Latin in full: "COLONIA AELIA CAPITOLINA") was a Roman colony, built under the emperor Hadrian on the site of Jerusalem, which was in ruins since the siege of 70 AD, leading in part to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–136 AD. Aelia Capitolina remained the official name of Jerusalem unt...
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Aelianus_Tacticus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelianus_Tacticus
2,634
Aelianus Tacticus. Aelianus Tacticus (; fl. 2nd century AD), also known as Aelian (), was a Greek military writer who lived in Rome. Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled "On tactical arrays of the Greeks" (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably...
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Agarose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agarose
2,635
Agarose. An agarose is a polysaccharide polymer material, generally extracted from seaweed. Agarose is a linear polymer made up of the repeating unit of agarobiose, which is a disaccharide made up of D-galactose and 3,6-anhydro-L-galactopyranose. Agarose is one of the two principal components of agar, and is purified f...
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Atomic_absorption_spectroscopy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_absorption_spectroscopy
2,637
Atomic absorption spectroscopy. Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) is a spectroanalytical procedure for the quantitative determination of chemical elements using the absorption of optical radiation (light) by free atoms in the gaseous state. In analytical chemistry the technique is used for determining the concentrat...
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Arthur_St._Clair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_St._Clair
2,639
Arthur St. Clair. Arthur St. Clair (– August 31, 1818) was an American soldier and politician. Born in Thurso, Scotland, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in Pennsylvania, where he held local office. During the American Revolutionary War, he rose to the rank of major general...
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Ajaccio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajaccio
2,640
Ajaccio. Ajaccio (;;;,) is a French commune, prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud, and head office of the "Collectivité territoriale de Corse" (capital city of Corsica). It is also the largest settlement on the island. Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, southeast of Marseille. Napole...
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Ajaigarh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajaigarh
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Ajaigarh. Ajaigarh or Adjygurh () is a town and a nagar panchayat in the Panna District of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. History. Ajaigarh was the capital of a princely state of the same name during the British Raj. Ajaigarh was founded in 1765 by Guman Singh, a bundela Rajput who was the nephew of Raja Pahar ...
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Ajanta_Caves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajanta_Caves
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Ajanta Caves. The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE. The caves include paintings and sculptures described by the government Archaeological Survey of India as "the finest surviving exa...
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Ajmer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmer
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Ajmer. Ajmer () is the fifth largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and is the centre of the eponymous Ajmer District. According to the 2011 census, Ajmer has a population of around 551,360 in its urban agglomeration and 542,580 in the city. The city is located at a distance of 135 km from the state capital Jaip...
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Ajmer-Merwara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmer-Merwara
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Ajmer-Merwara. Ajmer-Merwara, also known as Ajmir Province and as Ajmer-Merwara-Kekri, is a former province of British India in the historical Ajmer region. The territory was ceded to the British by Daulat Rao Sindhia by a treaty on June 25, 1818. It was under the Bengal Presidency until 1936 when it became part of the...
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Abatement_of_debts_and_legacies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abatement_of_debts_and_legacies
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Abatement of debts and legacies. Abatement of debts and legacies is a common law doctrine of wills that holds that when the equitable assets of a deceased person are not sufficient to satisfy fully all the creditors, their debts must abate proportionately, and they must accept a dividend. In the case of legacies when t...
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Affection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affection
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Affection. Affection, attraction, infatuation, or fondness is a "disposition or rare state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love. It has given rise to a number of branches of philosophy and psychology concerning emotion, disease, influence, and state of being. "Affection" is popularly...
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Affiliation_(family_law)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliation_(family_law)
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Affiliation (family law). In law, affiliation (from Latin "ad-filiare", to adopt as a son) is the term to describe a partnership between two or more parties. Affiliation procedures in England. In England a number of statutes on the subject have been passed, the chief being the Bastardy Act of the Parliament of 1845, an...
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Affray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affray
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Affray. In many legal jurisdictions related to English common law, affray is a public order offence consisting of the fighting of one or more persons in a public place to the terror (in) of ordinary people. Depending on their actions, and the laws of the prevailing jurisdiction, those engaged in an affray may also rend...
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Afghan_Turkestan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Turkestan
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Afghan Turkestan. Afghan Turkestan is a region in northern Afghanistan, on the border with the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In the 19th century there was a province in Afghanistan named Turkestan Province until abolished by Abdur Rahman, and was centred on Mazari Sharif and includ...
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Afyonkarahisar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afyonkarahisar
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Afyonkarahisar. Afyonkarahisar (, "poppy, opium", "kara" "black", "hisar" "fortress") is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, south-west of Ankara along the Akarçay River. Elevation. Population (2010 census) 173,100 Etymology. The nam...
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Abba_Arika
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Arika
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Abba Arika. Abba Arikha (175–247) (Talmudic Aramaic:; born: "Abba bar Aybo", Hebrew: רב אבא בר איבו) was a Jewish Talmudist who was born and lived in Kafri, Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora (commentator on the Oral Law) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, whi...
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Abbahu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbahu
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Abbahu. Abbahu () was a Jewish Talmudist, known as an "amora", who lived in the Land of Israel, of the 3rd amoraic generation (about 279-320), sometimes cited as R. Abbahu of Caesarea (Ḳisrin). His rabbinic education was acquired mainly at Tiberias, in the academy presided over by R. Johanan, with whom his relations we...
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Abbreviator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviator
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Abbreviator. Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out "in extenso" by the "scriptore...
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Abd_al-Latif_al-Baghdadi_(medieval_writer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Latif_al-Baghdadi_(medieval_writer)
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Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer). Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, short for Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162–1231), or Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East ...
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Abd_al-Rahman_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Rahman_I
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Abd al-Rahman I. Abd al-Rahman I, more fully Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (731–788), was the founder of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries (including the succeeding Caliphate of Córdoba). At the time it was known by the Arabs as al-Anda...
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Abd_ar-Rahman_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_ar-Rahman_II
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Abd ar-Rahman II. Abd ar-Rahman II () (792–852) was Umayyad Emir of Córdoba in the Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia) from 822 until his death. Biography. Abd ar-Rahman II was born in Toledo, the son of Emir Al-Hakam I. In his youth he took part in the so-called "massacre of the ditch", when from 700 to 5,000 people come to p...
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Abd-ar-Rahman_III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd-ar-Rahman_III
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Abd-ar-Rahman III. Abd-ar-Rahman III (′Abd ar-Rahmān ibn Muhammad ibn ′Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn ′abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Hakam ar-Rabdi ibn Hisham ibn ′abd ar-Rahman ad-Dakhil;; 11 January 889/91 – 15 October 961) was the Emir and Caliph of Córdoba (912–961) of the Umayyad dynasty in al-Andalus. Called "al-Nasir li-Din ...
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Abd_ar-Rahman_IV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_ar-Rahman_IV
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Abd ar-Rahman IV. Abd ar-Rahman IV Mortada (عبدالرحمن) was the Caliph of Córdoba in the Umayyad dynasty of the Al-Andalus, succeeding Suleiman II, in 1018. That same year, he was murdered at Cadiz while fleeing from a battle in which he had been deserted by the very supporters which had brought him into power. His brie...
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Abd_ar-Rahman_V
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_ar-Rahman_V
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Abd ar-Rahman V. Abd ar-Rahman V () was an Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba. In the agony of the Umayyad dynasty in the Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia), two princes of the house were proclaimed Caliph of Córdoba for a very short time, Abd-ar-Rahman IV Mortada (1017), and Abd-ar-Rahman V Mostadir (1023–1024). Both were the mere pu...
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Abdülaziz_of_the_Ottoman_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd%C3%BClaziz_of_the_Ottoman_Empire
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Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire. Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire or Abdülaziz I (Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز / "`Abdü’l-`Azīz",; 9 February 1830 – 4 June 1876) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876. He was the son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abdülme...
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Abdera,_Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdera%2C_Spain
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Abdera, Spain. Abdera (, Strabo;, Ptol.;, Ephor. ap. Steph. B.) was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena), in the district inhabited by the Bastuli. It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became...
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Abdera,_Thrace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdera%2C_Thrace
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Abdera, Thrace. Abdera (; Ancient Greek:) was a major Greek "polis" on the coast of Thrace. It lay 17 km east-northeast of the mouth of the Nestos River, almost directly opposite the island of Thasos. The site now lies in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece. The municipality of Abdera (Modern Greek:) has 19,005 ...
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