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# Eschenau **Eschenau** is a town in the district of Lilienfeld in the Austrian state of Lower Austria
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# 3rd Space Vest The ForceWear Vest is a haptic suit that was unveiled at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March 2007. The vest was mentioned in several articles about next-generation gaming accessories. The vest was released in November 2007, and reviews of the product have been generally favorable....
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# Hainfeld **Hainfeld** is a municipality in the district of Lilienfeld in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. ## Geography Hainfeld is situated on the Gölsen River in the Southeast Lower Austria. It\'s the biggest city in Gölsen Valley (*Gölsental*). The Gölsen River begins in Hainfeld with the merging of *Flieder...
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# 2nd East Anglian Regiment The **2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester\'s Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)** was a short-lived infantry regiment of the British Army from 1960 to 1964. Its lineage is continued by the Royal Anglian Regiment. ## History As a result of the Defence Review, it was ...
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# 2nd East Anglian Regiment ## Battle honours {#battle_honours} The 2nd East Anglians inherited the battle honours of its two predecessor regiments. The following were chosen to be displayed on the colours: `{{div-col}}`{=mediawiki} *Regimental Colour* - Blenheim - Ramillies - Oudenarde - Malplaquet - Loui...
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# Tales of the Baroness ***Tales of the Baroness***, a three-part animated short film. Musician Sarah Slean teamed up with video director Nelson Chan of Mary, Day One in this series. It is about a young girl named Georgina hoping to cure a cursed nunnery with her scientific skills, while encountering the legendary Bar...
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# Hohenberg, Lower Austria **Hohenberg** is a town in the district of Lilienfeld in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. ## Population Place where Family Weinstabl was born and raised before emigrating to Argentina
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# Jan Boven **Jan Boven** (born 28 February 1972 in Delfzijl, Groningen) is a road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who turned professional in 1996, and remained with the same team, Rabobank, until 2008. His son, Lars Boven is a professional cyclist for UCI WorldTeam `{{UCI team code|ADC}}`{=mediawiki}
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# Hanne Sophie Greve **Hanne Sophie Greve** (born 14 April 1952 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian judge. She graduated as cand.jur. in (1976) and later (1988) dr. juris at the University of Bergen. She was judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg from 1998 to 2004. Before she was appointed to the ...
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# Kaumberg **Kaumberg** is a town in the district of Lilienfeld in the Austrian state of Lower Austria
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# Erik Thompson **Erik Thompson** (born July 22, 1959, in La Jolla, California) is an American voice actor and television announcer. ## Career After starting out as a disc jockey in San Diego and Los Angeles radio, he began pursuing a career in voiceover. Thompson eventually found work as a promotional voice of HBO,...
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# Olsen and Johnson **John Sigvard** \"**Ole**\" **Olsen** (November 6, 1892 -- January 26, 1963) and **Harold Ogden** \"**Chic**\" **Johnson** (March 5, 1891 -- February 26, 1962) were American comedians of vaudeville, radio, the Broadway stage, motion pictures and television. Their shows were noted for their crazy b...
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# Olsen and Johnson ## *Hellzapoppin* Although Olsen and Johnson were a leading act in vaudeville, their greatest achievement was their \"legitimate theater\" production of *Hellzapoppin*. Assembled and produced by Olsen and Johnson, *Hellzapoppin* opened at New York\'s 46th Street Theatre on September 22, 1938, and ...
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# Olsen and Johnson ## Olsen and Johnson at Universal Pictures {#olsen_and_johnson_at_universal_pictures} In 1941, Universal Pictures decided to commit *Hellzapoppin\'* to film (unlike the musical, including an apostrophe in the title), with plenty of crazy and sometimes innovative gags. A cab driver literally goes t...
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# Olsen and Johnson ## Library of gags {#library_of_gags} Olsen and Johnson used hundreds of gag props and mechanical devices over the course of their partnership. As vaudevillians they safeguarded some of these specialties by submitting detailed descriptions and diagrams to National Vaudeville Artists, Inc.\'s Prote...
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# Olsen and Johnson ## Legacy Olsen and Johnson\'s comedy style has often been imitated (most successfully by *Rowan and Martin\'s Laugh-In*). ## Films - *Oh Sailor Behave!* (Warner Bros., 1930) (68 minutes) - *Fifty Million Frenchmen* (Warner Bros., 1931) (68 minutes) - *Gold Dust Gertie* (Warner Bros
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# The Finches **The Finches** is an American folk pop band, founded in San Francisco, California. The band released their debut album *Human Like a House* on January 30, 2007. In February 2008, Aaron Morgan moved from The Finches. John Garmon (drums) and Gerry Saucedo (bass) joined the group. They are a trio. ## Mem...
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# Mahlon Hoagland **Mahlon Bush Hoagland** (October 5, 1921 -- September 18, 2009) was an American biochemist who discovered transfer RNA (tRNA), the translator of the genetic code. ## Biography ### Early life {#early_life} Mahlon Bush Hoagland was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1921 to Hudson Hoagland and Anna ...
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# The Left Handed Gun ***The Left Handed Gun*** is a 1958 American Western film and the film directorial debut of Arthur Penn, starring Paul Newman as Billy the Kid and John Dehner as Pat Garrett. The screenplay was written by Leslie Stevens from a teleplay by Gore Vidal, which he wrote for the television series *The...
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# Kleinzell **Kleinzell** is a town in the district of Lilienfeld in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. ## Geography Kleinzell is the third largest municipality in the district of Lilienfeld with a size of about 93.09km². Kleinzell is situated in the Halbachtal in the Gutenstein Alps about 55 kilometres southwest ...
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# Steve Gage **Steven Glen Gage** (born May 10, 1964) is an American former professional football safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins from 1987 to 1988. He played college football at the University of Tulsa and was selected in the sixth round of the 1987 NFL draft
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# History of Falkenberg The **history of Falkenberg** is, to a smaller or larger extent, known since the late 13th century, when the town starts to appear in written sources. The town might have taken over the position as a local power center from a location in Stafsinge. It was then Danish, and would remain so up til...
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# History of Falkenberg ## Modern period (-1860) {#modern_period__1860} Year Mayor ----------- ------------------------------------ 1444 Herman Röde 1446 Peder Bengtsen dead 1592 Carl Jacobsen 1658-1664 Mickel Lauritzsson 1664-1680 Johan Larsson 1680-1686 Antonius (Tönnis)...
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# History of Falkenberg ## The town starts to grow (1860-) {#the_town_starts_to_grow_1860_} From the 1820s and onwards action had been taken to improve the state of the Port of Falkenberg. In the mid 19th century the need for a better harbour became desperate. Hallands Ångbåtsaktiebolag (*Halland Steamboat Inc.*) had...
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# Achaidh Leithdeircc **Achaidh Leithdeircc** (modern spelling *Achadh Leith-dheirg*) is an ancient location in Ireland reputed to be the site of a historic battle, or series of battles, around the year 331 AD, in which the forces of the Three Collas along with men of Connaught eventually conquered vast tracts of terr...
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# Achaidh Leithdeircc ## Aghaderg Parish, County Down {#aghaderg_parish_county_down} Aghaderg is a civil parish mainly in the Barony of Iveagh Upper, Upper Half and partly within the Barony of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half in the County Down, Province of Ulster. Within the bounds of Aghaderg parish are the remains of many...
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# Achaidh Leithdeircc ## Barony of Dartree & Barony of Farney, County Monaghan {#barony_of_dartree_barony_of_farney_county_monaghan} The battle was fought in Farney in 331 AD according to the Annals of the Four Masters. In later sections of the Annals, Farney is spelt \'Fernmaighe\' in the Gaelic language and \'Fearn...
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# Achaidh Leithdeircc ## Achaidh Leith-dheirg - In the Valley of the Black Pig\'s Dyke {#achaidh_leith_dheirg___in_the_valley_of_the_black_pigs_dyke} In the barony of Dartree, county Monaghan, some five miles south of Clones lies the parish of Currin: through which runs a six-mile remnant of the ancient Black Pig\'s ...
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# Havana Heat ***Havana Heat*** is a novel published in 2000 by Darryl Brock. It is a fictionalized story about a real historical figure, Dummy Taylor, a deaf baseball player who played professional baseball in the years 1900‒1908. `{{Infobox book | name = Havana Heat | title_orig = | translator = | ...
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# Émilien Dumas Jean Louis George **Émilien Dumas** (16 october 1804 -- 21 September 1870) was a French scholar, palaeontologist, and geologist. ## Biography Born to a Protestant family of the bourgeoisie in Gard, Émilien Dumas was immersed from his early childhood in an atmosphere of learning and erudition. His fat...
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# Oocyte cryopreservation **Oocyte cryopreservation** (commonly referred to as **OC** or **egg freezing**) is a form of assisted reproductive technology (ART) used to preserve human eggs (oocytes). The technique is often used to delay pregnancy. When pregnancy is desired, the eggs can be thawed, fertilized, and transf...
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# Oocyte cryopreservation ## Method The egg retrieval process for oocyte cryopreservation is the same as that for IVF (In vitro fertilisation). This process includes one to several weeks of hormone injections that stimulate ovaries to ripen multiple eggs. When the eggs are mature, final maturation induction is perfor...
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# Oocyte cryopreservation ## Success rates {#success_rates} Early work investigating the percentage of transferred cycles showed lower frozen cycles compared with fresh cycles (approx. 30% and 50%). More recent studies show \"fertilization and pregnancy rates are similar to IVF/ICSI (in vitro fertilization/intracytop...
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# Oocyte cryopreservation ## Elective oocyte cryopreservation {#elective_oocyte_cryopreservation} Elective oocyte cryopreservation, also known as social egg freezing, is non-essential egg freezing to preserve fertility for delayed child-bearing when natural conception becomes more problematic. The frequency of this p...
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# Oocyte cryopreservation ## Risks Most risks associated with egg freezing aren\'t necessarily related to the practice itself, but rather come as consequences to the administration of medications intended to stimulate the ovaries. However, some smaller issues have been linked with the procedure of egg collection. Th...
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# Camillo Caccia Dominioni **Camillo Caccia-Dominioni** (7 February 1877 -- 12 November 1946) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Pontifical Household from 1921 to 1935, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ## Biography Born in Milan, Camillo Caccia-Dominioni stu...
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# Denny High School **Denny High School** in Scotland is a non-denominational public secondary school. The school was opened in 1959, and moved to a new building in February 2009. The new school contains a gymnasium, swimming pool and drama studio. The school serves an area of 25 sqmi around the area of Denny, Falkirk...
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# John French (ice hockey) **John George French** (born August 25, 1950) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 420 games in the World Hockey Association. Born in Orillia, Ontario, he played with the New England Whalers, San Diego Mariners, and Indianapolis Racers. ## Career statistics {#care...
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# John Gray (ice hockey) **John Gordon Gray** (born August 13, 1949) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey winger who played 363 games in the World Hockey Association. He played with the Phoenix Roadrunners, Houston Aeros, and Winnipeg Jets
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# San Antonio Matadors The **San Antonio Matadors** were a professional football team that played in the Spring Football League (SFL) in 2000. The Matadors were undefeated before the league decided to cease operations. The Matadors were named co-SFL Champions along with the Houston Marshals. The Head Coach for the Mat...
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# Physella ***Physella*** is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae. These snails eat algae, diatoms and other detritus. ## Shell description {#shell_description} Snails in the family Physidae have shells that are sini...
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# Gavin Kirk (ice hockey) **Gavin Kirk** (born December 6, 1951) is a British former professional ice hockey player who played 422 games in the World Hockey Association. He played with the Ottawa Nationals, Toronto Toros, Calgary Cowboys, Birmingham Bulls, and Edmonton Oilers. As a youth, he played in the 1964 Quebec ...
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# List of first overall WNBA draft picks The **Women\'s National Basketball Association\'s first overall pick** is the player who is selected first among all eligible draftees by a team during the annual Women\'s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft. The first pick is awarded to the team that wins the WNBA dra...
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# Guzmán Quintero Torres **Guzmán Quintero Torres** was a Colombian journalist and reporter from the city of Valledupar. He was assassinated on 16 September 1999 after writing a series of articles two months before his death in which he denounced the involvement of some members of the Colombian National Army in the er...
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# Peter Marrin **Peter Marrin** (born August 8, 1953) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 277 games in the World Hockey Association. During his career he played with the Toronto Toros and Birmingham Bulls. As a youth, he played in the 1966 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with ...
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# Ordensburg Krössinsee **Ordensburg Krössinsee** (also *Crössinsee*, now Budowo) was the first of three *NS-Ordensburgen*, educational centers constructed in Germany in the 1930s for cadres of the Nazi Party. It was built near what was then the city of Falkenburg in Pomerania, today Złocieniec in Poland. Today, this...
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# Rick Morris (ice hockey) **Richard Ian Morris** (July 5, 1946 -- August 25, 1998) was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played 413 games in the World Hockey Association. During his career, he played with the Chicago Cougars, Denver Spurs, Ottawa Civics, Edmonton Oilers, and Quebec Nordiques
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# William Gaines (American football) **William Albert Gaines** (born June 20, 1971) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive lineman for four seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1990s. Gaines played college football for the Florida Gators, and thereafter, he played in...
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# Giovanni di Vico **Giovanni di Vico** (died 1366) was an Italian Ghibelline leader, lord of Viterbo, Vetralla, Orvieto, Narni and numerous other lands in northern Lazio and Umbria. He is the most famous member of the Prefetti di Vico family. ## Biography Giovanni is mentioned for the first time in 1322. In 1337 he...
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# Lost streams of Idaho There are two rivers in Idaho named \"Lost\", the **Big Lost River** and the **Little Lost River**. They are often considered separate streams, but both flow into the same depression and become subterranean, feeding the Snake River Aquifer. The rivers are located in Custer County and Butte Coun...
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# Kelmscott School **Kelmscott School** is a secondary comprehensive school in Walthamstow, East London, England. The school has approximately 900 pupils aged 11--16. In 2008 the school underwent an £11.2m refurbishment as part of the Building Schools for the Future program. The current headteacher is Mr Sam Jones. K...
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# Ed Patenaude **Edgar Arnold** \"**Rusty**\" **Patenaude** (October 17, 1949`{{snd}}`{=mediawiki}July 24, 2021) was a professional ice hockey player who played 431 games in the World Hockey Association. He played with the Edmonton Oilers and Indianapolis Racers
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# The Colored American (New York City) ***The Colored American*** was an African American newspaper published in New York City from 1837 to 1842 by Samuel Cornish, Phillip Alexander Bell, and Charles Bennett Ray. When Cornish retired, James McCune Smith joined as co-editor. Initially published under the name *The Wee...
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# Paine Page Prim **Paine (Payne) Page Prim** (May 2, 1822 -- August 8, 1899) was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 6th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving in that role three times between 1864 and 1878. Prim served on Oregon's highest court for 21 years. Prim was the firs...
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# Michael Wishnie **Michael Wishnie** is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. ## Clinical work {#clinical_work} Wishnie teaches two clinics at Yale Law School. The \"9/11 Clinic,\" known formally as \"Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security after September 11,\" represents detainees in civil right...
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# Irina Bogacheva (mezzo-soprano) **Irina Petrovna Bogacheva** (`{{nee|'''Komyakova'''}}`{=mediawiki}, 2 March 1939`{{spaced ndash}}`{=mediawiki}19 September 2019) was a Russian mezzo-soprano at the Mariinsky Theatre and a professor of voice at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Trained in Leningrad and at La Scala in...
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# Jon Abbate **Jon Abbate** (born June 18, 1985) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at Wake Forest University in 2004--2006 and was signed as a free agent by the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL) in 2007. ## College career {#college_career} After redshirting his f...
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# Rick Sentes **Rick Sentes** (born January 10, 1947) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 337 games in the World Hockey Association (WHA). He played with the Ottawa Nationals, Toronto Toros, San Diego Mariners, and Calgary Cowboys
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# Bob Sicinski **Bob Sicinski** (born November 13, 1946, in Brampton, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 353 games in the World Hockey Association. He played with the Chicago Cougars and Indianapolis Racers. While playing for the Indianapolis Racers, he wore jersey number 17
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# Professional Writers Association of Canada The **Professional Writers Association of Canada** (PWAC) is a professional association representing professional freelance writers in Canada, predominantly in the newspaper and magazine industries. However, PWAC members also write magazine and newspaper articles, books, sp...
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# Fred Hageman **Fred John Hageman** (June 30, 1937 -- November 4, 2012) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Arkansas and University of Kansas, and was drafted in the 2nd round in 1959 by the Oakland Raid...
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# Ah Diddums ***Ah Diddums*** is a computer game released by Imagine Software for the ZX Spectrum in 1983 and can be run on the 16KB/48KB versions of the machine and the Commodore 64 in 1984. ## Gameplay The player controls a teddy bear who is trying to escape a toy box in order to comfort his crying baby owner. Ted...
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# Tom Simpson (ice hockey) **Tom Simpson** (born August 12, 1952) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played 314 games in the World Hockey Association. ## Career During his career, Simpson played with the Toronto Toros, Birmingham Bulls, and Edmonton Oilers. In the 1974-75 WHA season, Simpson (n...
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# Stations of the Resurrection The **Stations of the Resurrection**, also known by the Latin name ***Via Lucis*** (Way of Light), are a form of Christian devotion, encouraging meditation upon the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and some of the Resurrection appearances and other episodes recorded in the New Testament. The...
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# Stations of the Resurrection ## List of Stations {#list_of_stations} there is no universally-agreed list of Stations of the Resurrection, nor have any Church authorities sought to impose a definitive list, and as a result some churches have commissioned sets of sculptures for the Stations according to their own dis...
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# Maxi-Man **Maxi-Man** is the name of two DC Comics heroes. The first was created by Len Wein and Joe Phillips and first appeared in *Mister Miracle* (vol. 2) #9 (October 1989). The second was created by Jodi Picoult and Drew Johnson and first appeared in *Wonder Woman* (vol. 3) #6 (May 2007). ## Fictional character...
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# Serge Aubry **Serge Dieudonne Aubry** (January 2, 1942 -- October 30, 2011) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 142 games in the World Hockey Association and an NHL coach. ## Early life {#early_life} Aubry was born in Montreal, Quebec. He played junior hockey with the Sherbrooke Castors an...
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# Plunderathon **Plunderathon** is an annual pirate-themed festival in Portland, Oregon, United States that usually coincides with Fleet Week or the Rose Festival. Plunderathon is run by a group calling itself \"the Infernal Order of Pirates, Buccaneers, Scallywags, and Privateers\" that prides itself on a heavy disin...
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# Giovanni Manfredi **Giovanni Manfredi** (1324--1373) was lord of Faenza from 1341 until 13 September 1356, as well as of numerous other minor fiefs in Romagna. He was born in Imola, the illegitimate son of Riccardo Manfredi, and fought for Mastino II della Scala against John of Bohemia. In 1351 he was hired by Bern...
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# McDonald v. Smith ***McDonald v. Smith***, 472 U.S. 479 (1985), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the right to petition does not provide absolute immunity to petitioners; it is subject to the same restrictions as other First Amendment rights. ## Background In 1981, David Smith bro...
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# Hirschel Levin Rabbi **Hirschel Ben Arye Löb Levin** (also known as **Hart Lyon** and **Hirshel Löbel**; 1721 -- 26 August 1800) was Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and of Berlin, and Rabbi of Halberstadt and Mannheim, known as a scholarly Talmudist. ## Life He was born in Rzeszów, Polish--Lithuanian Commonwealth to ...
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# Samuel Merritt University **Samuel Merritt University** (**SMU**) is a private university focused on health sciences with its main campus in Oakland, California, and other facilities in Sacramento, San Mateo and Fresno. It was an affiliate of the Sutter Health Network and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center until it di...
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# Mike Haight **Michael James Haight** (born October 6, 1962) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and Washington Redskins. He was selected by the Jets in the first round of the 1986 NFL draft. He played college footb...
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# Val Ross **Valerie Jacqueline Candida** \"**Val**\" **Ross** (17 October 1950 -- 17 February 2008) was a Canadian writer who won the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children\'s non-fiction. She was also a journalist for the newspaper *The Globe and Mail*, and won a National Newspaper Award in 1992 for critical w...
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# Physa ***Physa*** is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Physinae of the family Physidae. These snails eat algae, diatoms and detritus. ## Anatomy Members of the freshwater pulmonate family Physidae possess a complex of...
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# Sica The **sica** is a short sword or large dagger of ancient Illyrians, Thracians, and Dacians; it was also used in ancient Rome. It is a shorter form of the falx, and the root of the word is the same as the modern sickle. It was originally depicted as a curved sword (see the Zliten mosaic as well as numerous oil ...
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# Daniel D. Stevens **Daniel Dickinson Stevens** (December 19, 1839 -- November 7, 1916) was a United States Navy sailor during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor, America\'s highest military decoration, for his actions at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher. ## Biography In mid-January 1865, Steven...
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# Richard Wolf (composer) *Pandoc failed*: ``` Error at (line 67, column 3): unexpected '|' |'''Year''' ^ ``
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# Cochrane railway station, Sydney **Cochrane railway station** was a railway station on the Ropes Creek railway line serving the suburb of Ropes Crossing, Sydney, New South Wales. ## History The station was built because of increased passenger numbers and increased production at the St. Marys Munitions Works site a...
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# Bernard Kinsey **Bernard Kinsey** is a Los Angeles philanthropist and entrepreneur with a passion for African-American history and art of the 19th and 20h centuries. He and his wife, Shirley Kinsey, have been called \"one of the most admired and respected couples in Los Angeles.\" They are known for espousing two li...
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# Bernard Kinsey ## Philanthropy Bernard and Shirley Kinsey\'s 50-year marriage and partnership represents an alliance based on love, respect, and the importance of friends and family. The two have raised over 22 million dollars for charitable and educational organizations, 11 million dollars to their alma mater, Flo...
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# Bernard Kinsey ## Kinsey African American Art & History Collection {#kinsey_african_american_art_history_collection} Bernard and Shirley are widely heralded for their stewardship of art, books and manuscripts that document and tell the story of African Americans\' triumphs and struggles from 1632 to present. From S...
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# Buddleja saligna ***Buddleja saligna***, the **false olive** or **bastard olive**, is native to South Africa and Zimbabwe, where it has a wide distribution. It occurs most often in ravines and against outcrops, and is distributed from coastal elevations to the central plateau at elevations of \< 2000 m. The species ...
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# Astorre III Manfredi **Astorre III Manfredi** (June 20, 1485 -- June 9, 1502) was lord Faenza, in northern Italy, from 1488 to 1501. He was born in Faenza, the son of Galeotto Manfredi. He succeeded his father in the lordship of Faenza in 1488 at the age of three. In 1501 he was deposed by Cesare Borgia and sent t...
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# Marcus Mason **Marcus Mason** (born June 23, 1984) is an American former professional football running back. Marcus has also recently launched (as of April 27th, 2025) a new career into the world of progressive Christian HipHop/Rap music. His success on the football field has helped the lyricist gain notoriety in an...
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# Alexis Blue **Alexis Blue** were an English four-piece indie rock band, made up of one pair of brothers and two friends from the Wallasey area of Merseyside, the band was unsigned, but self-released their music through an independent record label set up by the band and associates - People vs Grass Records. Intervie...
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# Alexis Blue ## 2008 {#section_1} Starting 2008 the band performed an acoustic set live on BBC Radio Merseyside and were named as one of the \'Top 10 Current Bands From Liverpool\'. The band set out on a mini UK tour in February which saw them headline Alan McGee\'s highly regarded Death Disco in London, West Street...
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# Alexis Blue ## 2009 {#section_2} May, June and July saw Alexis Blue set off on a UK wide tour with new material to showcase. This 25+ date tour saw them play dates that include Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Blackburn. Shortly after the tour was completed, it was announced that Chr...
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# Pygmy python The **pygmy python** (***Antaresia perthensis***), also known as the **anthill python**, is a species of snake found in Western Australia. Their common names are due to their being the smallest member of the family Pythonidae and often being found in termite mounds. No subspecies are currently recognise...
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# Library of Pergamum The **Library of Pergamum** (*Βιβλιοθήκη του Πέργαμον*) is an ancient Greek building in Pergamon, Anatolia, today located nearby the modern town of Bergama, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey. It was one of the most important libraries in the ancient world. ## The city of Pergamum {#the_cit...
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# Library of Pergamum ## The Library of Pergamum {#the_library_of_pergamum} Pergamum was home to a library said to house approximately 200,000 volumes, according to the writings of Plutarch. Built by Eumenes II between 220 and 159 BCE and situated at the northern end of the Acropolis, it became one of the most import...
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# Sichuan opera **Sichuan opera** (`{{zh|c=川劇}}`{=mediawiki}; Sichuanese Pinyin: Cuan^1^ju^4^; `{{zh|p=Chuānjù}}`{=mediawiki}) is a type of Chinese opera originating in China\'s Sichuan province around 1700. Today\'s Sichuan opera is a relatively recent synthesis of five historic melodic styles. Chengdu is the main ho...
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# Sichuan opera ## History ### The People\'s Republic of China {#the_peoples_republic_of_china} In 1952, the Sichuan Opera delegation organized a large performance group to attend the first National Opera Viewing and performance Conference in Beijing. Several plays and performances, including *The Willow Shadow*, *Au...
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# Sichuan opera ## Schools of thought {#schools_of_thought} During the long-term development of Sichuan Opera, there were differences between regions in what voice styles were popular, as well as in the relationships between artists and their teachers. Due to this, several schools of Sichuan Opera were formed. These ...
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# Sichuan opera ## Characteristics Sichuan opera is notable for its quick changes of masks and personae, referred to as the face change. ### Makeup Clown facial makeup is painted on the bridge of the nose in a white square. Makeup used can vary among both positive and negative characters. Yu Zhuang in harmony; Pure...
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# Sichuan opera ## 5 styles ### Gaoqiang (高/高) {#gaoqiang_高高} Gaoqiang is the most distinctive and representative form of Sichuan opera. Its main characteristics are its free line and free singing style. There is no accompaniment, and only a clapper and drum are used to adjust the rhythm of Gaoqiang. The percussion ...
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# Sichuan opera ## Repertoire The repertoire of Sichuan opera is varied and rich. There is a saying that \"three thousand in the Tang dynasty, eight hundred in the Song dynasty, and countless countries\". There are more than 100 repertoires on the stage. Among them, there are many relics from the Song and Yuan Southe...
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# History of the France national rugby union team The French national rugby union team first competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics. ## Early years {#early_years} Rugby was introduced to the Le Havre region of France by British merchants and students in the 1870s and was subsequently spread throughout the schools and ...
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# History of the France national rugby union team ## The Five Nations and the Olympics {#the_five_nations_and_the_olympics} France played Wales for the first time on 2 March 1908, losing 36 -- 14 away from home. On March 20, 1909, France played Ireland for the first time, falling 19--8. When Scotland played France i...
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# History of the France national rugby union team ## The sixties {#the_sixties} Les Bleus scored four tries to one at Cardiff Arms Park and beating Ireland with a record score, 23--6. France\'s match against England ended in a stalemate and the two sides had to share the 1960 Five Nations trophy. Pierre Albaladejo se...
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