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Pierre Benjamin Monteux ( pronounced : [ pjɛʁ mɔ ̃ .tø ] ; 4 April 1875 – 1 July 1964 ) was a French ( later American ) conductor . After violin and viola studies , and a decade as an orchestral player and occasional conductor , he began to receive regular conducting engagements in 1907 . He came to prominence when , ...
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Ellis Paul ( born Paul Plissey ; January 14 , 1965 ) is an American singer @-@ songwriter and folk musician . Born in Aroostook County , Maine , Paul is a key figure in what has become known as the Boston school of songwriting , a literate , provocative and urbanely romantic folk @-@ pop style that helped ignite the f...
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" Welcome Wagon " is the season premiere of the third season of the American mystery television series Veronica Mars , and the forty @-@ fifth episode overall . Written by series creator Rob Thomas and directed by John T. Kretchmer , the episode premiered on The CW on October 3 , 2006 . The series depicts the adventur...
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Thomas Dunderdale ( 6 May 1887 – 15 December 1960 ) was a professional ice hockey forward . Born in Australia , he moved to Canada at the age of 6 , in 1894 . He played in Winnipeg for three seasons , from 1906 to 1910 . In 1910 , he joined the Montreal Shamrocks of the National Hockey Association ( NHA ) , and played...
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George Mouzalon ( Greek : Γεώργιος Μουζάλων , Geōrgios Mouzalōn ; ca . 1220 – 25 August 1258 ) was a high official of the Empire of Nicaea under Theodore II Laskaris ( r . 1254 – 1258 ) . Of humble origin , he became Theodore 's companion in childhood and was raised to high state office upon the latter 's assumption o...
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Star Wars : The Force Unleashed is a LucasArts action @-@ adventure video game and part of the The Force Unleashed project . It was initially developed for the PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 3 , Wii , and Xbox 360 consoles and on the iOS , second @-@ generation N @-@ Gage , Nintendo DS , PlayStation Portable , and Java @...
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The Battle For Midway is a turn @-@ based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services . It was first released in the United Kingdom and France for the MSX in 1984 , and was re @-@ released for the Amstrad CPC , Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1985 . It is the second instalment of the Stra...
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The South Dakota class was a group of four fast battleships built by the United States Navy . They were the second class of battleships to be named after the 40th State ; the first designed in the 1920s and canceled under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty . The class comprised four ships : South Dakota , Indian...
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Árpád ( Hungarian pronunciation : [ ˈaːrpaːd ] ; c . 845 – c . 907 ) was the head of the confederation of the Hungarian tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries . He may have been either the sacred ruler or kende of the Hungarians , or their military leader or gyula , although most details of his life are lost...
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Zuihō ( 瑞鳳 , " Auspicious Phoenix " or " Fortunate Phoenix " ) was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy . Originally laid down as the submarine support ship Takasaki , she was renamed and converted while under construction into an aircraft carrier . The ship was completed during the first year of Wor...
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Iwane Matsui ( 松井 石根 , Matsui Iwane , July 27 , 1878 – December 23 , 1948 ) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the commander of the expeditionary force sent to China in 1937 . He was convicted of war crimes and executed by the Allies for his involvement in the Nanking Massacre . Born in Nagoya , Matsui wa...
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Heinrich Schmitt ( 1743 – 11 November 1805 ) was a lieutenant field marshal in the Habsburg military during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars . He developed a sound military reputation as a surveyor , map @-@ maker , and strategist during Austria 's wars with the Ottoman Empire , He served on the Quartermas...
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Greg Wohlwend is an American independent video game developer and artist whose games include Threes ! , Ridiculous Fishing , Hundreds , Gasketball , Puzzlejuice , and Solipskier . He originally formed Intuition Games with Iowa State University classmate Mike Boxleiter in 2007 where they worked on Dinowaurs and other s...
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Sutorius eximius , commonly known as the lilac @-@ brown bolete , is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae . This bolete produces fruit bodies that are dark purple to chocolate brown in color with a smooth cap , a finely scaly stipe , and a reddish @-@ brown spore print . The tiny pores on the cap underside are...
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The Hi @-@ Level is a type of bilevel intercity railroad passenger car built by the Budd Company for the Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( " Santa Fe " ) in the 1950s and 1960s . The first two coaches entered service on the El Capitan in 1954 and found immediate success . Budd built sufficient coaches , dining ...
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" Audition Day " is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock , and the 62nd overall episode of the series . The episode was written by supervising producer Matt Hubbard and directed by Beth McCarthy @-@ Miller . It originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( ...
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Matsalu National Park ( previously Matsalu Nature Reserve , Estonian : Matsalu rahvuspark , often just Matsalu ) is a nature reserve and national park situated in Lääne County , Estonia . Matsalu National Park spans an area of 486 @.@ 1 km2 ( 187 @.@ 7 sq mi ) , comprising Matsalu Bay , the Kasari River delta , the vi...
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Sir Herbert Hope Risley KCIE CSI ( 4 January 1851 – 30 September 1911 ) was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator , a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency . He is notable for the formal application of the caste system to the en...
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" Ulysses " is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred , Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ) , written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well @-@ received second volume of poetry . An oft @-@ quoted poem , it is popularly used to illustrate the dramatic monologue form . Facing old age , mythical hero Ulysses w...
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Tiny Toon Adventures : How I Spent My Vacation is a 1992 American direct @-@ to @-@ video animated comedy film from Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment . Featuring the regular characters from the animated program Tiny Toon Adventures , the film follows them during their summer vacation from school , mainly...
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Rachel Henderson ( born 8 September 1992 ) is an Australian goalball player and is classified as a B2 competitor . While only starting playing the game in 2010 , she made the national team in 2011 and competed in the 2011 IBSA Goalball World Cup and 2011 African @-@ Oceania regional Paralympic qualifying competition ....
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Gather Together in My Name ( 1974 ) is a memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou . It is the second book in Angelou 's series of seven autobiographies . The book begins immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , and follows Angelou , called Rita , from the ages of 17 to 19 ...
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Snow Prince - Forbidden Love Melody ( Japanese : スノープリンス 禁じられた恋のメロディ , Hepburn : Sunō Purinsu : Kinjirareta Koi no Merodii ) is a 2009 Japanese film . This film is adapted from the novel A Dog of Flanders and is inspired by the 1971 film A Small Love Melody . Directed by Joji Matsuoka and written by Kundō Koyama — the...
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State Route 319 ( SR 319 ) is a very short , two @-@ lane state highway in the western portion of the U.S. state of Ohio . A spur route , SR 319 has its western terminus at an abandoned railroad grade just west of Washington Street in the village of Burkettsville . Its eastern terminus is 0 @.@ 56 miles ( 0 @.@ 90 km ...
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" Born Again " is a song recorded by the Christian rock band Third Day and alternative metal singer Lacey Mosley . Written by Mac Powell and composed by Third Day , " Born Again " was released as the third and final single from Third Day 's 2008 album Revelation . Musically , the song is a ballad featuring influences ...
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Julia Eileen Gillard ( born 29 September 1961 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013 , as leader of the Australian Labor Party . She previously served as the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia , and held the cabinet positions of Minister for Educat...
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Patrie was a pre @-@ dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the early 1900s . She had one sister ship , République . Patrie was laid down at the La Seyne shipyard in April 1902 , launched in December 1903 , and completed three years later in December 1906 , the same time as the revolutionary British battle...
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Skullgirls is a 2D fighting game independently developed by Reverge Labs and co @-@ published by Autumn Games and Konami . The game was released through the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in North America , Europe , and Australia from April to May 2012 , and later received a Japanese release by CyberFront fo...
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The Rocky Mountain Horse is a horse breed developed in the state of Kentucky in the United States . Despite its name , it originated not in the Rocky Mountains , but instead in the Appalachian Mountains . A foundation stallion , brought from the western United States to eastern Kentucky around 1890 , began the Rocky M...
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Robert Ford ( born December 26 , 1948 ) is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate since 1993 , representing District 42 , which is located in Charleston . From 1974 to 1992 , he served as a member of the Charleston City Council . Originally involved in the civil rights mo...
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The 2011 season for Leopard Trek / ˈleɪoʊpɑːrd trɛk / , its first , began in January at the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia . As a UCI ProTeam , they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every race in the UCI World Tour . The team formed for 2011 as a Luxembourgian ...
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Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico ( NAP ) — Spanish : Programa de Asistencia Nutricional ( PAN ) commonly known in Puerto Rican Spanish as Cupones ( English : Food Stamps ) — is a federal assistance nutritional program provided by the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) solely to Puerto Rico . It provi...
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Briar Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Columbia County , Pennsylvania , in the United States . It is 7 @.@ 77 miles ( 12 @.@ 50 km ) in length . The stream has a watershed area of 33 @.@ 0 square miles . It flows through Briar Creek Township and the borough of Briar Creek . The area near the mouth of t...
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A transitional fossil is any fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group . This is especially important where the descendant group is sharply differentiated by gross anatomy and mode of living from the ancestral group . These fossils serve a...
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The 2007 – 08 Pittsburgh Penguins season was the franchise 's 41st season in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) . Their regular season began on October 5 , 2007 , against the Carolina Hurricanes and concluded on April 6 , 2008 , against the rival Philadelphia Flyers . The Penguins looked to improve upon their progress...
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Admiral Makarov was the second of the four Bayan @-@ class armoured cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the mid @-@ 1900s . While initially assigned to the Baltic Fleet , the ship was detached to the Mediterranean several times before the start of World War I in 1914 . She was modified to lay mines sho...
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Murasaki Shikibu ( 紫 式部 , English : Lady Murasaki ; c . 973 or 978 – c . 1014 or 1031 ) was a Japanese novelist , poet and lady @-@ in @-@ waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period . She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji , written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012 , and considered to b...
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The Yes Album is the third studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes , released on 19 February 1971 by Atlantic Records . It is their first album with guitarist Steve Howe who replaced Peter Banks in 1970 , and their last in the 1970s to feature keyboardist Tony Kaye . The album was the first by the group ...
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The Battle of Yanshi ( 偃師之戰 ) was fought on 5 – 6 October 618 between the armies of Wang Shichong and Li Mi , rival contenders for the succession of the Sui Dynasty . Wang , who was still ostensibly a Sui loyalist and had been blockaded in Luoyang for months by Li Mi , gambled on a decisive battle and led his army out...
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The Frighteners is a 1996 New Zealand @-@ American horror comedy film directed by Peter Jackson and co @-@ written with his wife , Fran Walsh . The film stars Michael J. Fox , Trini Alvarado , Peter Dobson , John Astin , Dee Wallace Stone , Jeffrey Combs , and Jake Busey . The Frighteners tells the story of Frank Bann...
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The Parti des déshérités de Madagascar ( PADESM , " Party of the Disinherited of Madagascar " ) was a political party active in Madagascar from June 1946 into the First Republic ( 1960 – 1972 ) . It was formed in reaction to the establishment and rapid political success of the Mouvement démocratique de la rénovation m...
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Simeon Slavens Willis ( December 1 , 1879 – April 1 , 1965 ) was the 46th Governor of Kentucky , United States , serving from 1943 to 1947 . He was the only Republican elected governor of Kentucky between 1927 and 1967 . Willis 's family came to Kentucky from Ohio about 1889 . After briefly working in the education an...
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Pickett 's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade 's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on July 3 , 1863 , the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg in the state of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War . Its futility was predicted by the charge 's...
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The plain maskray or brown stingray ( Neotrygon annotata ) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae . It is found in shallow , soft @-@ bottomed habitats off northern Australia . Reaching 24 cm ( 9 @.@ 4 in ) in width , this species has a diamond @-@ shaped , grayish green pectoral fin disc . Its short , whip...
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The children 's television program Sesame Street premiered in 1969 to high ratings , positive reviews , and some controversy , which have continued during its history . Even though the show aired on only 67 % of American televisions at the time of its premiere , it earned a 3 @.@ 3 Nielsen rating , or 1 @.@ 9 million ...
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English law contains homicide offences – those acts involving the death of another person . For a crime to be considered homicide , it must take place after the victim 's legally recognised birth , and before their legal death . There is also the usually uncontroversial requirement that the victim be under the " Queen...
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The teleosts or Teleostei ( Greek : teleios , " complete " + osteon , " bone " ) are by far the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii , the ray @-@ finned fishes , and make up 96 percent of all fish . This diverse group arose in the Triassic period and members are arranged in about 40 orders and 448 families ...
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Demolition Plot J @-@ 7 is the second extended play by American indie rock band Pavement , released in 1990 . The EP was the band 's first release on Chicago independent label Drag City , and its first release that was not self @-@ issued . Demolition Plot J @-@ 7 shared many of the same indie and punk rock influences...
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His Band and the Street Choir ( also referred to as Street Choir ) is the fourth studio album by Northern Irish singer @-@ songwriter Van Morrison . It was released on 15 November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records . Originally titled Virgo 's Fool , Street Choir was renamed by Warner Bros. without Morrison 's consent . Rec...
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" Two Weeks " is the twenty @-@ first episode of the fifth season of the television series The Office , and the 93rd overall episode of the series . It originally aired on NBC in the United States on March 26 , 2009 . In this episode , Michael , who has given his two weeks ' notice to Dunder Mifflin , tries to find a ...
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The Schiehallion experiment was an 18th @-@ century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth . Funded by a grant from the Royal Society , it was conducted in the summer of 1774 around the Scottish mountain of Schiehallion , Perthshire . The experiment involved measuring the tiny deflection of a pendulum d...
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Menominee Tribe v. United States , 391 U.S. 404 ( 1968 ) , is a case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Menominee Indian Tribe kept their historical hunting and fishing rights even after the federal government ceased to recognize the tribe . It was a landmark decision in Native American case law . The Menominee...
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The Mac Pro line is a series of Intel Xeon – based workstation and server computers manufactured by Apple Inc . The Mac Pro , in most configurations and in terms of speed and performance , is the most powerful computer that Apple offers . It is the high @-@ end model of the three desktop computers in the current Mac l...
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The Oval is a football stadium in Belfast , Northern Ireland , which has been home to Glentoran F.C. since 1892 . The Oval was bombed during the Belfast blitz of World War II , and was out of use until 1949 when it was rebuilt by the club along with supporters , who had jointly formed the ' Back to the Oval ' campaign...
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New York State Route 398 ( NY 398 ) was an east – west state highway located within the town of Stuyvesant in Columbia County , New York , in the United States . It served as a short connector between NY 9J in the hamlet of Stuyvesant and U.S. Route 9 ( US 9 ) in the hamlet of Sunnyside southwest of the town of Stuyve...
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Hurricane Kate was the final in a series of tropical cyclones to impact the United States during 1985 and the latest in any calendar year to strike the country at hurricane intensity on record . The eleventh named storm , seventh hurricane , and third major hurricane of the annual hurricane season , Kate originated fr...
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On April 29 , 2006 , American comedian Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents ' Association Dinner , which was held in Washington , D.C. , at the Hilton Washington hotel . Colbert 's performance , consisting of a 16 @-@ minute podium speech and a 7 @-@ minute video ...
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Hildegard von Krone ( ヒルデガルド ・ フォン ・ クローネ , Hirudegarudo fon Kurōne ) , Hilde ( ヒルダ , Hiruda ) / ˈhɪldɛ / for short , is a fictional character in the Soul series of video games . Created by Namco 's Project Soul division , she first appeared in Soulcalibur IV and its subsequent sequels , later appearing in various mer...
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" Blood on the Dance Floor " is a song by Michael Jackson . The song was released as the first single from the remix album , Blood on the Dance Floor : HIStory in the Mix . Jackson and Teddy Riley created the track in time for the 1991 release of Dangerous . However , it did not appear on that record and was not relea...
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" Marauders " is the sixth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek : Enterprise , the 32nd episode overall . It first aired on October 30 , 2002 , on the UPN network within the United States . The story was created by executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga wi...
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" Realty Bites " is the ninth episode of the The Simpsons ' ninth season . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 7 , 1997 . The episode sees Marge becoming a real estate agent , while Homer enjoys Snake 's car . It was written by Dan Greaney and directed by Swinton O. Scott III . Home...
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Tropical Storm Felice was a modest tropical cyclone that lightly impacted parts of the Gulf Coast of the United States in mid @-@ September 1970 . Spawned by an upper @-@ level trough over the Bahamas , the system crossed the Florida Keys and entered the Gulf of Mexico , where it gradually began to strengthen . Felice...
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William Somerville Edmiston ( November 10 , 1857 – July 24 , 1903 ) was an architect and politician in present day Alberta , Canada . He was a member of the Edmonton Town Council and for two terms , the mayor of Edmonton . Originally a native of Scotland , Edmiston came to Canada to settle in Clover Bar , Northwest Te...
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George Julian " Snowy " Howell , VC , MM ( 19 November 1893 – 23 December 1964 ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest decoration for gallantry " in the face of the enemy " that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces . Howell was decorated with the Victoria Cro...
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Naṣr ibn Sayyār al @-@ Lāythi al @-@ Kināni ( Arabic : نصر بن سيار الليثي الكناني ) ( 663 – 748 ) was an Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 738 – 748 . Nasr played a distinguished role in the wars against the Turgesh , although he failed to decisively confront the rebellion of al @-@ Harith ibn ...
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Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha , ComM ( born 17 November 1986 ) , commonly known as Nani ( Portuguese pronunciation : [ naˈni ] ) or Luís Nani , is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club Valencia CF and the Portugal national team . Although predominantly right @-@ footed , he has bee...
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The Pug is a breed of dog with a wrinkly , short @-@ muzzled face and curled tail . The breed has a fine , glossy coat that comes in a variety of colours , most often fawn or black , and a compact square body with well @-@ developed muscles . Pugs were brought from China to Europe in the sixteenth century and were pop...
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Back to Basics is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Christina Aguilera . It was released on August 9 , 2006 by RCA Records as a double album . Serving as executive producer , she enlisted a wide range of producers including DJ Premier , Rich Harrison , Rob Lewis , Mark Ronson , and Linda Perry . Reco...
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Brien McKeiver Taylor ( born December 26 , 1971 ) is a former pitcher in minor league baseball . He spent seven seasons in the minor leagues , primarily with the New York Yankees organization . In his career , he had a win – loss record of 22 – 30 , a 5 @.@ 12 earned run average ( ERA ) , and 210 strikeouts in 351 inn...
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House Bill 444 ( abbreviated H.B. 444 ) was a 2009 bill of the Hawaii State Legislature , passed in April 2010 and vetoed by Governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle , that would have legalized civil unions for couples in the state of Hawaii . Its legislative process was accompanied by controversy over the bill 's content and ...
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Uttar Pradesh ( / ˈʊtər prəˈdɛʃ / , Hindi : उत ् तर प ् रदेश literally " Northern Province " ) , abbreviated as UP , is the most populous state in the Republic of India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world . It was created on 1 April 1937 as the United Provinces , and was renamed Uttar Pradesh...
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Anstey Hill Recreation Park is a 362 @-@ hectare ( 890 @-@ acre ) protected area established in 1989 and located approximately 19 kilometres ( 12 mi ) northeast of Adelaide , South Australia . The park is a significant reserve of bushland in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges and is home to rare or vulnerable nat...
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Fellows v. Blacksmith , 60 U.S. ( 19 How . ) 366 ( 1857 ) , is a United States Supreme Court decision involving Native American law . John Blacksmith , a Tonawanda Seneca , sued agents of the Ogden Land Company for common law claims of trespass , assault , and battery after he was forcibly evicted from his sawmill by ...
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Sam Joshua Oldham ( born 17 February 1993 ) is an English artistic gymnast who represents Great Britain . He was part of the British men 's team at the 2012 Summer Olympics that won bronze in the team competition . He is also a three @-@ time junior European champion and won individual horizontal bar gold at the 2010 ...
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Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos ( born December 19 , 1967 ) , better known by the stage name Criss Angel , is an American magician and illusionist . Angel began his career in New York City , before moving his base of operations to the Las Vegas Valley . He is known for starring in the television and stage show Criss A...
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USS Bennington ( Gunboat No. 4 / PG @-@ 43 ) was a member of the Yorktown class of steel @-@ hulled , twin @-@ screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . She was the first U.S. Navy ship named in honor of the town of Bennington , Vermont , site of the Battle of Bennington in t...
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Hans Namuth ( March 17 , 1915 – October 13 , 1990 ) was a German @-@ born photographer . Namuth specialized in portraiture , photographing many artists , including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock . His photos of Pollock at work in his studio increased Pollock 's fame and recognition and led to a greater underst...
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Warfarin , also known by the brand names Coumadin among others , is an anticoagulant normally used in the prevention of thrombosis and thromboembolism , the formation of blood clots in the blood vessels and their migration elsewhere in the body , respectively . It was initially introduced in 1948 as a pesticide agains...
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The flag of Poland consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width , the upper one white and the lower one red . The two colors are defined in the Polish constitution as the national colors . A variant of the flag with the national coat of arms in the middle of the white stripe is legally reserved for official use a...
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Megami Tensei Gaiden : Last Bible ( 女神転生外伝 Last Bible , lit . " Goddess Reincarnation Side Story : Last Bible " ) is a role @-@ playing video game series developed by Multimedia Intelligence Transfer , Sega , and Menue , and published by Atlus and Sega for multiple platforms . The first game of the series , Revelation...
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Amaranthus brownii is an annual herb in the Amaranthaceae family . The plant is found only on the small island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands , growing on rocky outcrops at altitudes of 120 – 215 m ( 394 – 705 ft ) . It is one of nine species of Amaranthus in the Hawaiian Islands , but the only endemic ...
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Country Bill 's Restaurant was a family @-@ owned American @-@ style steakhouse and seafood restaurant in the Woodstock neighborhood of southeast Portland , Oregon , in the United States . Adjacent to the restaurant was a bar called CB 's Lounge . The restaurant opened in 1964 when ownership transferred from Bill Blak...
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Birt – Hogg – Dubé syndrome ( BHD ) , also Hornstein – Birt – Hogg – Dubé syndrome , Hornstein – Knickenberg syndrome , and fibrofolliculomas with trichodiscomas and acrochordons is a human autosomal dominant genetic disorder that can cause susceptibility to kidney cancer , renal and pulmonary cysts , and noncancerous...
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The African crake ( Crex egregia ) is a bird in the rail family that breeds in most of sub @-@ Saharan Africa away from the arid south and southwest . It is seasonally common in most of its range other than the rainforests and areas that have low annual rainfall . This crake is a partial migrant , moving away from the...
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Macabeemyrma is an extinct genus of bulldog ants in the subfamily Myrmeciinae containing the single species Macabeemyrma ovata , described in 2006 from Ypresian stage ( Early Eocene ) deposits of British Columbia , Canada . Only a single specimen is known ; a holotype queen found preserved as a compression fossil . Th...
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Pinkan Ratnasari Mambo ( born 11 November 1980 ) , also spelled Pingkan Mambo , is an Indonesian pop singer . She achieved success as the vocalist in the Indonesian music duo Ratu between 2000 and 2004 , then continued her career as a soloist . Born and raised in Jakarta , Mambo began singing at an early age but only ...
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King 's Highway 61 , commonly referred to as Highway 61 and historically known as the Scott Highway , is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . The 61 @-@ kilometre ( 38 mi ) route connects the Pigeon River Bridge , where it crosses into the United States and becomes Minnesota State Hi...
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" Through the Looking Glass " is the third season finale of the ABC television series Lost , consisting of the 22nd and 23rd episodes of the third season . It is also the 71st and 72nd episodes overall . It was written by co @-@ creator / executive producer Damon Lindelof and executive producer Carlton Cuse , and dire...
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The Civilian Public Service ( CPS ) was a program of the United States government that provided conscientious objectors with an alternative to military service during World War II . From 1941 to 1947 , nearly 12 @,@ 000 draftees , willing to serve their country in some capacity but unwilling to perform any type of mil...
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Hulk is a 2003 American superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name . Ang Lee directed the film , which stars Eric Bana as Dr. Bruce Banner , as well as Jennifer Connelly , Sam Elliott , Josh Lucas , and Nick Nolte . The film explores the origins of Bruce Banner , who after a lab acc...
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Skåneland ( Swedish ) or Skånelandene ( Danish ) is a region on the southern Scandinavian peninsula . It includes the Swedish provinces of Blekinge , Halland and Scania . The Danish island of Bornholm is sometimes also included . Skåneland has no official recognition or function and the term is not in common usage . E...
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Adam Joseph DeBus , Jr . ( October 7 , 1892 – May 13 , 1977 ) was a German American professional baseball player whose career spanned three seasons , one of which was spent with the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1917 ) . Over his MLB career , DeBus , an infielder , compiled a .229 batting average ...
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Hurricane Fran , also referred initially as Subtropical storm Bravo , was a long @-@ tracked Category 1 hurricane that caused little damage during its existence in early October 1973 . Originating from a tropical wave that developed off the coast of Hispaniola on October 1 , the precursor to Fran slowly developing dur...
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" New Allegiances " is the series seven premiere and 57th episode of the British espionage television series Spooks . It was originally broadcast on BBC One on 27 October 2008 . The episode was written by Neil Cross , with additional writing by Ben Richards , and directed by Colm McCarthy . The episode is considered t...
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The Asama @-@ Sansō incident ( あさま山荘事件 , Asama sansō jiken ) was a hostage crisis and police siege in a mountain lodge near Karuizawa , Nagano prefecture , Japan that lasted from February 19 , 1972 to February 28 , 1972 . The police rescue operation on the final day of the standoff was the first marathon live televisi...
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Skanderbeg 's Italian expedition ( 1460 – 1462 ) was undertaken to aid his ally Ferdinand I of Naples , whose rulership was threatened by the Angevin Dynasty . George Kastrioti Skanderbeg was the ruler of Albania ( Latin : dominus Albaniae ) who had been leading a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire since 1443 and al...
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" Gavin Volure " is the fourth episode of the third season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock , and the 40th overall episode of the series . It was written by co @-@ executive producer John Riggi and directed by Gail Mancuso . The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in t...
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The Tower of London , officially Her Majesty 's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London , is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London . It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the ...
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Shaun James Whalley ( born 7 August 1987 ) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Shrewsbury Town . Born in Prescot , Merseyside , Whalley played for Norwich City and Southport as a youth before making his Football League debut with Chester City in 2004 . After leaving Chester , he spent time in non @-...
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Secret of Mana , originally released in Japan as Seiken Densetsu 2 ( 聖剣伝説2 , lit . " Legend of the Sacred Sword 2 " ) , is a 1993 action role @-@ playing game developed and published by Square ( now Square Enix ) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . It is the sequel to the 1991 game Seiken Densetsu , released...