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Balans ( pronounced balance ) is a song recorded by Romanian recording artist Alexandra Stan for her eponymous and second studio album , Alesta ( 2016 ) . Released on 2 March 2016 through Global Records , the track features the vocal collaboration of Swedish Congolese singer songwriter Mohombi . Balans was prod...
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The current Basque coat of arms ( Spanish Escudo del Pas Vasco , Basque unk unk unk unk ) is the official coat of arms of the Basque Country , Autonomous community of Spain . It consists of a party per cross representing the three historical territories of lava , Gipuzkoa and Biscay , as well as a fourth , void quart...
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Positive Black Soul ( also known as PBS ) is a hip hop group based in Dakar , Senegal , one of the first such collectives in the country . Founded in 1989 , the group is composed of Didier Sourou Awadi ( alias DJ Awadi ) and Amadou Barry ( alias Doug E. Tee or unk Tee ) , both of whom had previously been in other hip ...
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Route 12 is a state highway located in Hunterdon County , New Jersey , United States . It runs 11 . 69 mi ( 18 . 81 km ) from the unk Frenchtown Bridge at the Delaware River border with Pennsylvania in Frenchtown east to an intersection with U.S. Route 202 ( US 202 ) and Route 31 at the Flemington Circle in Flemington...
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Star Film was a film production company in the Dutch East Indies . Established by Chinese Indonesian businessman Jo Eng Sek and Chinese cameraman Cho ' Chin Hsin in 1940 , it produced five black and white films in 1940 and 1941 two of these were directed by Jo , and the remainder were directed by Wu Tsun . Another ...
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Interstate 194 ( I 194 ) is a 3 . 4 mile long ( 5 . 5 km ) , north south freeway between downtown Battle Creek and I 94 in the southern portion of the city . The highway has been designated the Sojourner Truth Downtown Parkway by the state after the abolitionist Sojourner Truth , who was active in the Battle Creek...
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The Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line was a railway branch line in Buckinghamshire , United Kingdom running from Wolverton on the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) ( today 's West Coast Main Line ) to Newport Pagnell . The line fully opened to passengers in 1867 , with an extension to Olney planned in 1865 , bu...
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Route 183 is a 2 . 12 mile ( 3 . 41 km ) long state highway in the northern regions of New Jersey . The southern end of NJ 183 is at an interchange with Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 206 near Netcong , while the northern end is at an interchange with US 206 in Stanhope . The route heads northward through downtown Netco...
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The French ironclad Invincible was the second of the three wooden hulled Gloire class ironclads built for the French Navy in 1858 62 . The ships of the Gloire class were classified as armoured frigates because they only had a single gun deck and their traditional disposition of guns arrayed along the length of the h...
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Blue Ridge Road is a 19 . 2 mile ( 30 . 9 km ) long roadway in Essex County , New York , in the United States . The road is designated as County Route 84 ( CR 84 ) from NY 28N in Newcomb to Interstate 87 ( I 87 ) in North Hudson , and as New York State Route 910K ( NY 910K ) between I 87 and U.S. Route 9 ( US 9 ) in...
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The flag of Indiana was designed by Paul Hadley and officially adopted by the state of Indiana on May 31 , 1917 . It was the state 's first official flag and has remained unchanged since then except for the creation of a statute to standardize the production of the flag . History To commemorate the state s 191...
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Hidden Treasures is an EP by American thrash metal band Megadeth , released on July 18 , 1995 by Capitol Records . The album features songs that first appeared on movie soundtracks and tribute albums . Four of the tracks were released as singles , and three have received Grammy Award nominations for Best Metal Performa...
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Delaware Route 299 ( DE 299 ) is a state highway in New Castle County , Delaware . It runs 9 . 77 mi ( 15 . 72 km ) from Maryland Route 282 ( MD 282 ) at the Maryland border east of Warwick , Maryland to DE 9 in Mathews Corners , passing through Middletown and Odessa . It overlaps U.S. Route 301 ( US 301 ) from just ea...
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Tekno Team 2000 was a professional wrestling tag team that competed in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) from 1995 to 1996 . The team was composed of Travis and Troy . Although the team started off with a strong push from the WWF , they did not continue their initial success . Tekno Team 2000 also left the WWF tem...
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The 147th Boat Race was won by Cambridge by two and a half lengths . It was the first time in the history of the event that the race was stopped and restarted , following a clash of blades . In the reserve race Goldie beat Isis Cambridge also won the Women 's race . Background The Boat Race is an annual co...
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Roma was an ironclad warship built for the Italian Regia Marina in the 1860s she was the lead ship of the Roma class ironclads . Armed with a main battery of five 10 inch ( 250 mm ) and twelve 8 in ( 200 mm ) guns in a broadside arrangement , Roma was obsolescent by the time she entered service . As a result , her c...
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How Brown Saw the Baseball Game , also known as How Jones Saw the Baseball Game , is an American short comedy film produced in 1907 and distributed by the Lubin Manufacturing Company . The film follows a baseball fan , named Mr. Brown , who drinks large quantities of alcohol before a baseball game and becomes so intoxi...
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The 54th Boat Race took place on 3 April 1897 . The Boat Race is an annual side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . Oxford went into the race as reigning champions , having won the previous year 's race . The crews were almost evenly matched weight ...
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Ingeborg Haug Steinholt ( born 16 July 1986 ) is a Norwegian politician for the Red Party , and since 2007 a member of Nordland County Council . Steinholt was a member of the Central Committee of Red Youth ( RU ) from 2006 to 2010 . She was also a member of the Central Board of Directors of Red Youth . Life and car...
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Annabel Breuer ( born 23 October 1992 ) is a wheelchair fencer and 1 . 5 point wheelchair basketball player . She has played for unk Ravensburg and Sabres Ulm in the German wheelchair basketball league . In December 2012 she was contracted to play for first division club RSV Lahn Dill as well as Sabres Ulm . She has a...
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Maryland Route 291 ( MD 291 ) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland . The state highway runs 18 . 34 miles ( 29 . 52 km ) from MD 20 in Chestertown east to the Delaware state line east of Millington , where the highway continues east as Delaware Route 6 ( DE 6 ) . MD 291 parallels the Chester River along the...
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The 109th Boat Race took place on 23 March 1963 . Held annually , the event is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . The race , umpired by Gerald Ellison , the Bishop of Chester , was won by Oxford with a winning margin of five lengths . Ba...
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The thyroid ima artery ( unk ima artery , unk unk ima , thyroid artery of Neubauer or the lowest thyroid artery ) is an artery of the head and neck . It is an anatomical variant that , when present , supplies blood to the thyroid gland , which is primarily supplied by the inferior and superior thyroid arteries . The ar...
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The Riverview Theater is a neighborhood movie theater in the Howe neighborhood of Minneapolis , Minnesota . Designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan , the theater was built by theater owners Bill and Sidney Volk in 1948 . After building a subsequent theater in a new ultramodern style , the Volks returned to the Riverview in 1...
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Distant Lights is a song recorded by American indie rock band Ivy . It was released as the lead single from their sixth studio album , All Hours ( 2011 ) . It was issued in the United States on June 7 , 2011 as a digital download by Nettwerk . The single was written and produced by Adam Schlesinger and Andy Chase . ...
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Transport Flight ( Japan ) was a Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) transport unit that operated in the aftermath of the Korean War . It was formed in March 1955 at Iwakuni , Japan , and equipped with three Douglas C 47 Dakotas and a CAC Wirraway . The flight 's main duty was flying a regular courier service between ...
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Sutton Valence Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Sutton Valence in Kent , England . It was built in the second half of the 12th century , probably by Baldwin of Bethune , the Count of Aumale . Overlooking a strategic route to the coast , the original castle probably comprised an inner and an o...
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The 115th Boat Race took place on 5 April 1969 . Held annually , it is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . The race featured the heaviest oarsman in the history of the event in Cambridge 's David Cruttenden . It was won by Cambridge who passe...
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The East and West Blockhouses were Device Forts built by King Henry VIII in 1539 to protect the harbour of Milford Haven in Wales . The two blockhouses were positioned on either side of the Milford Haven Waterway in the villages of Angle and Dale respectively , overlooking the sea . The East Blockhouse was never comple...
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Joyful , Joyful is a song by contemporary Christian music band Casting Crowns from their fourth studio album Until the Whole World Hears ( 2009 ) . Written by Mark Hall and Bernie Herms and produced by Mark A. Miller , the song is a re interpretation of the hymn Joyful , Joyful We Adore Thee and Ludwig van Beethov...
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The U.S. State of New York has been known by many nicknames , most notably as the Empire State , adopted as late as the 19th century . This nickname has been incorporated into the names of several state buildings and events , and is commonly believed to refer to the state 's wealth and resources . However , the origin ...
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The T19 Howitzer Motor Carriage ( HMC ) , was a 105 mm ( 4 . 1 in ) howitzer mounted on a M3 Half track chassis . It saw service during World War II with the U.S. Army . Its secondary armament consisted of an air cooled .50 in ( 13 mm ) M2 machine gun for local defense . It was produced by Diamond T between January 1...
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Luke Cain ( born 3 February 1980 ) is an SH2 classified Australian shooter who became a paraplegic after an accident while playing Australian rules football . He started competing in 2007 , as the sport suited his disability , and has been a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder since 2008 . He first represe...
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Hog Island sheep are a breed of sheep descended from animals first brought to Virginia 's Hog Island in the 18th century . During the 1930s and 1940s , storm conditions forced the island 's residents to evacuate , leaving some sheep behind . These sheep adapted to the environment free of human intervention , becoming f...
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The 71st Boat Race took place on 28 March 1914 . Held annually , the Boat Race is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . Oxford went into the race as reigning champions , having won the previous year 's race . In this year 's race , umpired by f...
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King 's Highway 59 , commonly referred to as Highway 59 , was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . It connected Long Point Provincial Park in Norfolk County to the town of Shakespeare in Perth County , passing through the city of Woodstock in Oxford County en route . Several smaller t...
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The World War I Memorial is a bronze sculpture by Pietro Montana and is located at the intersection of Taunton Avenue , unk Avenue , and John Street in East Providence , Rhode Island , United States . The sculpture is modeled on Charles Atlas and depicts a dynamically posed soldier standing on a granite base . Montana ...
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The Beguiling is a comic shop in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . It specializes in underground and alternative comics , classic comic strip reprints , and foreign comics . It has built an international reputation for focusing on and promoting non superhero comics in the superhero dominated North American comic book mark...
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Brainard Homestead State Park , and alternatively Brainerd Homestead State Park , is a 25 acre undeveloped Connecticut state park located in the town of East Haddam , Connecticut , United States . A farmhouse was built on the site by Timothy Green in 1842 before being purchased by Selden Tyler Brainerd in March 1854 . ...
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M 77 is a state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula ( UP ) of the US state of Michigan . It starts in US 2 near Blaney Park north of Lake Michigan . The highway borders the eastern edge of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge and passes through the community of Germfask . At Seney , it overlaps M 28 to cross the F...
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Sister Margaret McKenna , unk , ( born 1940 ) is an American Medical Mission Sister and anti militarist activist . Raised in Hackensack , New Jersey , she earned her PhD in the origins and religious thought of Christianity from the University of Pennsylvania . In the 1970s , McKenna began participating in non violent...
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Benin took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics , which were held in Beijing , China from 8 to 24 August 2008 . The country 's participation at Beijing marked its eighth consecutive appearance in the summer Olympics since its debut in 1972 , and its ninth Olympic appearance ever . The Benin delegation included five athlete...
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It Takes a Church is an American dating game show hosted by Natalie Grant and broadcast by Game Show Network . The show travels to multiple churches across the country looking for single members of congregations looking for a partner . The congregation of the church is primarily in charge of looking at potential unk an...
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HMS Zubian was a First World War Royal Navy Tribal class destroyer constructed from the forward end of HMS Zulu and the rear and mid sections of HMS Nubian . These two destroyers had been badly damaged in late 1916 , and rather than scrapping both hulls at the height of World War I , the Admiralty ordered that they be...
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The 100th Boat Race took place on 3 April 1954 . Held annually , the Boat Race is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . In a race umpired by former Cambridge rower Kenneth Payne , Oxford won by four and a half lengths in a time of 20 minutes...
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Delaware Route 286 ( DE 286 ) and Maryland Route 286 ( MD 286 ) is a 3 . 82 mile ( 6 . 15 km ) , two lane roadway in New Castle County , Delaware , and Cecil County , Maryland . The route begins as MD 286 at George Street , which is one of the segments of unsigned MD 537C , and heads east within Chesapeake City to th...
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Severe Tropical Cyclone Clare was a moderately strong cyclone that struck Western Australia in January 2006 . The storm formed as an area of low pressure in the Arafura Sea , and moved westward . After receiving the name Clare on 7 January , the system ultimately peaked at Category 3 intensity on the Australian tropica...
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The TNA World Beer Drinking Championship was an unsanctioned professional wrestling championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) promotion . The championship was introduced on November 11 , 2007 at TNA 's Genesis pay per view ( PPV ) event . It was active until February 26 , 2008 when the title be...
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William J. B. J. Prager is a retired professional lacrosse attackman who played professional field lacrosse in the Major League Lacrosse ( MLL ) . He starred as a member of the Princeton Tigers men 's lacrosse team from 1999 through 2002 , where he was Ivy League rookie of the year , a three time United States Inter...
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Spongiforma thailandica is a species of fungus in the Boletaceae family , genus Spongiforma . The stemless sponge like species , first described in 2009 , was found in Khao Yai National Park in central Thailand , where it grows in soil in old growth forests . The rubbery fruit body , which has a strong odor of coal ...
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HMS Empress was a seaplane carrier of the Royal Navy ( RN ) that served during World War I. Converted from the Cross Channel packet ship Empress , the ship 's aircraft conducted aerial reconnaissance , observation and bombing missions in the North Sea and Eastern Mediterranean . During the last year of the war , she c...
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Nauru competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics , that were celebrated in Beijing , China , from August 8 to August 24 , 2008 . Nauru was represented by the Nauru Olympic Committee , and was the only nation out of 204 participating nations and territories that sent only a single athlete , and was one of 117 that won no meda...
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USS Neosho , the lead ship of her class , was an ironclad river monitor laid down for the Union Navy in the summer of 1862 during the American Civil War . After completion in mid 1863 , the ship spent time patrolling the Mississippi River against Confederate raids and ambushes as part of Rear Admiral David Porter 's M...
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Upon the independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union , the country resurrected national symbols that were used before the Soviet era . These included a flag of red and white stripes and a coat of arms consisting of a charging knight on horseback . These national symbols were replaced by Soviet era symbols in a dispu...
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Nils Vogt ( 27 October 1859 27 June 1927 ) was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor . Born into a family of politicians and civil servants , he became the first chairman of the Norwegian Press Association and the Conservative Press Association . Vogt worked at the conservative newspaper Morgenbladet for 45 year...
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( sic ) nesses is the fourth video album by American metal band Slipknot , released on September 28 , 2010 . The double disc release features a recording of their headlining performance at the 2009 Download Festival , along with a 45 minute behind the scenes documentary created by percussionist Shawn Crahan , and the...
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Lepiota babruzalka is an agaric mushroom of the genus Lepiota in the order Agaricales . Described as new to science in 2009 , it is found in Kerala State , India , where it grows on the ground in litterfall around bamboo stems . Fruit bodies have caps that measure up to 1 . 3 cm ( 0 . 5 in ) in diameter , and are cover...
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Apollo 's Chariot is steel roller coaster at the Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park in James City County , Virginia , United States . The ride was the first Hyper Coaster designed by Swiss firm Bolliger Mabillard . It officially opened to the public on March 30 , 1999 . The 4 , 882 foot long ( 1 , 488 m ) ride i...
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The Finnieston Crane or Stobcross Crane is a disused giant cantilever crane in the centre of Glasgow , Scotland . It is no longer in working order , but is retained as a symbol of the city 's engineering heritage . The crane was used for loading cargo , in particular steam locomotives , onto ships to be exported around...
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The Church of St John the Baptist ( Bulgarian unk , tsarkva Sveti Yoan unk ) , also known as the Church of St John the Precursor or , locally , Sveti Yani or Sveti Yan , is a small medieval Eastern Orthodox church in the town of Asenovgrad in Plovdiv Province , south central Bulgaria . The church is located on ...
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Alatskivi Castle ( Estonian Alatskivi loss , German Schloss unk ) is a Neo Gothic castle in Alatskivi , Estonia . Dating to the 17th century , it is situated in Alatskivi Parish , Tartu County . It was rebuilt in the late 19th century by Baron Arved von unk , modeled on the royal residence of Balmoral in Scotland . ...
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Fly Me Away is an electronic song performed by British group Goldfrapp . The song was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory for the duo 's third album Supernature ( 2005 ) . The song features a synthesizer and orchestral arrangement and was written about the need to escape from the troubles of dai...
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Jean Louis Cormier ( June 24 , 1942 May 25 , 2008 ) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name Rudy Kay . Cormier competed primarily in Canada and often formed a tag team with his brothers together , they are known as the Cormier wrestling family . He also worked behind the scenes , operating b...
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Route 166 is a short , 3 . 73 mile ( 6 . 00 km ) state highway in Ocean County , New Jersey . The route provides an alternate alignment of U.S. Route 9 through South Toms River and Toms River . The southern terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Route 9 northbound in Beachwood , where it heads northward along Atlant...
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Hydra the Revenge ( simply known as Hydra ) is a steel Floorless Coaster at Dorney Park Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown , Pennsylvania ( USA ) . It is the only Floorless Coaster in Pennsylvania and was built where the former wooden roller coaster Hercules once stood , which was closed and demolished at the end of the p...
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Mint is a premium airline product offered by JetBlue on some flights between the West Coast and the East Coast of the contiguous United States , and seasonally on some flights between the United States and Caribbean destinations . The service is operated with a fleet of Airbus A321 aircraft in a premium configuration ,...
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The 129th Boat Race took place on 2 April 1983 . Held annually , the event is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . The pre race preparation saw Cambridge threaten to boycott the race for the first time , following the inclusion of Boris Ranko...
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The French ironclad Belliqueuse ( Bellicose ) was a wooden hulled , armored corvette , built for the French Navy in the 1860s and designed as a cheap ironclad . She was the first French ironclad to sail around the world , which she did between December 1867 and May 1869 . She spent the bulk of her career in the Paci...
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SM UB 9 was a German Type UB I submarine or U boat in the German Imperial Navy ( German Kaiserliche Marine ) during World War I. UB 9 was ordered in October 1914 and was laid down at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen in November . UB 9 was a little under 28 metres ( 92 ft ) in length and displaced between 127 and 14...
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The French ironclad Jeanne d 'Arc was a wooden hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the late 1860s . She was named for Joan of Arc , a Roman Catholic saint and heroine of the Hundred Years War . Jeanne d 'Arc participated in the Franco Prussian War of 1870 71 and remained in commission afterwards , u...
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Route 20 , known locally as McLean Boulevard , is a state highway that runs 4 . 15 miles ( 6 . 68 km ) in New Jersey , United States . It runs along the east side of Paterson , Passaic County , following the west bank of the Passaic River between U.S. Route 46 and River Street ( County Route 504 ) , at which point Coun...
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Skinner 's Room is a short story by William Gibson originally composed for Visionary San Francisco , a 1990 museum exhibition exploring the future of San Francisco . It features the first appearance in Gibson 's fiction of the Bridge , which Gibson revisited as the setting of his acclaimed Bridge trilogy of novels . ...
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The Vote That Counted is a 1911 American silent short drama film produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film focuses on a state senator who disappears from a train and detective Violet Gray investigates the case . Gray manages to find that he was kidnapped and that it was done because he opposed a powerful lobby . Sh...
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Microgale macpheei is an extinct shrew tenrec from southeastern Madagascar . It is known only from two partial skulls found in Andrahomana cave , which radiocarbon dating of associated rodent remains suggests are about 2000 years old . It is the only known recently extinct tenrec . First described in 2007 , it is most ...
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The Battle of Krasos was a battle in the Arab Byzantine Wars that took place in August 804 , between the Byzantines under Emperor Nikephoros I ( r . 802 811 ) and an Abbasid army under Ibrahim ibn Jibril . Nikephoros ' accession in 802 resulted in a resumption of warfare between Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate . ...
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Krohn Air AS was a virtual , regional airline whose primary route was between Molde Airport , r to Trondheim Airport , Vrnes in Norway . The airline was established in 2010 after Scandinavian Airlines pulled out of the Molde Trondheim route . The airline aimed at the business segment , with early morning departures an...
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CSS Missouri was a Confederate States Navy casemate ironclad paddle steamer deployed on the Red River during the American Civil War . For most of the war she was trapped in the Shreveport , Louisiana area by low water on the Red River . The ship was surrendered in June 1865 to the United States Navy and sold in Novembe...
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Who Said is a pop song by American recording artist and actress Miley Cyrus . She is performing as Hannah Montana the alter ego of Miley Stewart , a character she plays on the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana . The song was written by Matthew Gerrard , Robbie Nevil , and Jay Landers and produced by Ge...
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USS Osage was a single turreted Neosho class monitor built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War . After completion in mid 1863 , the ship patrolled the Mississippi River against Confederate raids and ambushes as part of Rear Admiral David Porter 's Mississippi Squadron . Osage participated in the Red Riv...
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Tonga competed in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games held in the British Crown Dependency of Isle of Man from 7 to 13 September 2011 . Their participation marked their second Commonwealth Youth Games appearance . The delegation of Tonga consisted of three officials and four competitors ( two men and two women ) particip...
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The Brazilian monitor Santa Catharina ( in modern spelling , Santa Catarina ) was the sixth , and last , ship of the Par class river monitors built for the Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s . By the time she was completed the war was winding down and she only had one significant engagement aga...
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Velites ( singular unk ) were a class of infantry in the Roman army of the mid Republic . Velites were light infantry and skirmishers who were armed with a number of light javelins ( Latin hastae unk ) to fling at the enemy , and also carried short thrusting swords , or gladii , for use in melee . They rarely wore a...
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The Little Hero of Holland is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . It is an adaptation of the short fictional story popularized in Hans Brinker , or The Silver Skates , about a boy who plugs a leaking dike with his finger to prevent it from bursting . The role of the boy was played by...
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SM UB 11 was a German Type UB I submarine or U boat in the German Imperial Navy ( German Kaiserliche Marine ) during World War I. UB 11 was ordered in October 1914 and was laid down at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen in November . UB 11 was a little under 28 metres ( 92 ft ) in length and displaced between 127 and...
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Route 109 is a 3 . 06 mile ( 4 . 92 km ) state highway located in Cape May County , New Jersey , United States . The route runs from Jackson Street in Cape May north to an intersection with U.S. Route 9 ( US 9 ) in Lower Township . It crosses one of two road bridges over the Cape May Canal ( the other is Route 162 ) a...
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New York State Route 285 ( NY 285 ) was a state highway in Oneida County , New York , in the United States . The southern terminus of the 6 . 87 mile ( 11 . 06 km ) route was at an intersection with NY 69 west of the hamlet of Taberg in the town of Annsville . Its northern terminus was in the community of Thompson Cor...
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Kidung Abadi ( Indonesian for Eternal Ballad ) is a song written by father and daughter team Erwin and Gita Gutawa for the Kidung Abadi Chrisye concert the concert was held on 5 April 2012 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Chrisye 's death . The song was created over a period of three months by splicing syll...
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Katie Hill ( born 17 February 1984 ) is an Australian 3 . 0 point wheelchair basketball player . She participated in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing , where she won a bronze medal , and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London , where she won a silver medal . She has over 100 international caps playing for Australi...
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The British Virgin Islands took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics , which were held in Beijing , China from 8 to 24 August 2008 . The dependency 's participation at Beijing marked its seventh consecutive appearance in the summer Olympics since its debut in 1984 , and its eighth Olympic appearance ever . The British Virg...
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Hurricane Juliette was the strongest hurricane and final tropical cyclone of the inactive 1995 Pacific hurricane season . The tenth named storm of the season , Juliette formed on September 16 from a tropical wave off the southwest coast of Mexico . For the majority of its track , the storm moved toward the west northw...
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The 124th Boat Race between crews from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge took place on the River Thames on 25 March 1978 . Umpired by former Cambridge rower James Crowden , Oxford won in a time of 18 minutes and 58 seconds . The race was complicated by bad weather , and when faced with choppy wat...
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Agordat was a torpedo cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina built in the late 1890s . She was the lead ship of the Agordat class , which had one other member , Coatit . The ship , which was armed with twelve 76 mm ( 3 . 0 in ) guns and two 450 mm ( 18 in ) torpedo tubes , was too slow and short ranged to be able to scou...
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In Norse mythology , Ratatoskr ( Old Norse , generally considered to mean drill tooth or bore tooth ) is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the Verflnir , perched atop Yggdrasil , and the wyrm Nhggr , who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree . Ratatoskr...
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Herbert L. Mitchell , Jr . ( June 18 , 1937 January 4 , 2011 ) , credited as Herb Mitchell and sometimes Herb L. Mitchell , was an American actor , director , and teacher . He was a stockbroker before he made the switch to acting , appearing in films stage plays such as The Fiddler on the Roof , in which he played th...
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Long Ashton railway station was a railway station on the Bristol to Exeter Line , 3 . 5 miles ( 5 . 6 km ) southwest of Bristol Temple Meads , serving the village of Long Ashton in North Somerset , England . There were two stations on the site , the first , called Ashton , opened in either 1841 or 1852 and closed in ...
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State Route 67 ( SR 67 ) is a 43 . 4 mi ( 69 . 8 km ) long , north south state highway in northern Arizona . Also called the Kaibab Plateau North Rim Parkway , SR 67 is the sole road that links U.S. Route 89A ( US 89A ) at Jacob Lake to the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park . Along the route , the road heads th...
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SMS Wacht was an aviso of the Imperial German Navy , the lead ship of her class . She had one sister ship , Jagd . Wacht was built by the AG Weser shipyard she was laid down in 1886 , launched in August 1887 , and commissioned in August 1888 . She served in the active fleet through the 1890s and participated in numero...
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Sir Richard de Southchurch ( unk , unk ) ( died 1294 ) was a knight and part of the landowning aristocracy of Essex in the thirteenth century . He was High Sheriff of Essex and of Hertfordshire in the years 1265 67 , and as such became involved in the Second Barons ' War ( 1264 1267 ) . Southchurch has earned a speci...
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Rose Catherine Pinkney ( born 1964 ) is an American television development executive . She was hired as the VP Development and Original Programming for TV Land in 2012 . Pinkney has previously served as Director of Programming at Twentieth Century Fox Television , Senior Vice President of Comedy Development at Paramoun...
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The Cape lobster , Homarinus capensis , is a species of small lobster that lives off the coast of South Africa , from Dassen Island to Haga Haga . Only a few dozen specimens are known , mostly regurgitated by reef dwelling fish . It lives in rocky reefs , and is thought to lay large eggs that have a short larval phase...