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Hurricane Ignacio threatened Hawaii during July 1985 . A tropical depression formed on July 21 far from land . It became Tropical Storm Ignacio later that day . Ignacio then rapidly intensified and peaked with 130 mph ( 215 km h ) winds on July 24 . Ignacio weakened quickly , though it briefly leveled off in intensity...
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The French ironclad Colbert was the lead ship of the Colbert class ironclads that were built for the French Navy in the 1870s . The ship was the flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron for most of her career . She took part in the French conquest of Tunisia , notably shelling and landing troops in Sfax on 15 16 July 1...
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The Washington Park Court District is a Grand Boulevard community area neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago , Illinois . It was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 2 , 1991 . Despite its name , it is not located within either the Washington Park community area or the Washington Park park , but is one block no...
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The Icelandic Naming Committee ( Icelandic unk pronounced unk ) also known in English as the Personal Names Committee maintains an official register of approved Icelandic given names and governs the introduction of new given names into the culture of Iceland . Composition and mission The Naming Committee ...
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The 58th Boat Race took place on 30 March 1901 . 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 . Cambridge had won the previous year 's race by twenty lengths . This year 's race , umpired by former rower Frank Willan , w...
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SMS Bussard ( His Majesty 's Ship Bussard Buzzard ) was an unprotected cruiser of the Imperial German Navy , built in the 1880s . She was the lead ship of her class , which included five other vessels . The cruiser 's keel was laid in 1888 , and she was launched in January 1890 and commissioned in October of that ye...
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New York State Route 254 ( NY 254 ) is a state highway that extends for 6 . 01 miles ( 9 . 67 km ) through Warren and Washington counties in the Capital District of New York in the United States . The route runs from exit 19 along the Adirondack Northway ( Interstate 87 or I 87 ) in Queensbury and follows Aviation Roa...
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The Man Who Never Lied is a song recorded by American band Maroon 5 for their fourth studio album Overexposed ( 2012 ) . It was written by Adam Levine , Brian West and Marius Moga and produced by Levine and Noah Mailbox Passovoy together with West under his production pseudonym unk . The song received generally pos...
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Luke McLuke ( 1911 c . 1929 ) was a bay Thoroughbred stallion born in the United States he won the 1914 Belmont Stakes , the Carlton Stakes , Kentucky Handicap , and Grainger Memorial Handicap among his four wins from six starts . After his racing career was over , he became a breeding stallion , where he sired 11 st...
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Tropical Storm Julio in 2002 was a weak and short lived tropical storm that made landfall along the southern Mexican coast . An area of convection organized into a tropical depression on September 25 . Initially forecast to stay offshore , the depression headed northward and strengthened into a tropical storm that sam...
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Kampoeng Rawa ( alternatively Kampung Rawa , both Indonesian for Swamp Hamlet ) is a tourist attraction in Ambarawa , Central Java , located within the green belt around Lake Rawa Pening . Opened in August 2012 , it is owned and operated by twelve groups of farmers and fishermen who were funded by the Artha Prima Cre...
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Vida is a latin pop song by Guatemalan recording artist Ricardo Arjona , released on 7 December 2010 as the second single from his twelfth studio album , Poquita Ropa ( 2010 ) . The song was written by Arjona , who produced it with longtime collaborators Dan Warner and Lee Levin under their stage name Los Gringos . T...
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25 Images of a Man 's Passion , or The Passion of a Man is the first wordless novel by Flemish artist Frans Masereel ( 1889 1972 ) , first published in 1918 under the French title 25 images de la passion d 'un homme . The silent story is about a young working class man who leads a revolt against his employer . The fi...
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Nobody 's Perfect is a song by American recording artist Miley Cyrus , credited as her character Hannah Montana from the eponymous television series . It was released on May 15 , 2007 by Walt Disney Records as the lead single from Hannah Montana 2 ( 2007 ) , the accompanying soundtrack album for its second season . W...
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The 141st Boat Race took place on 1 April 1995 . 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 . Marko Banovic became the first rower from Croatia to participate in the event . Cambridge won by four lengths . In the rese...
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King 's Highway 129 , commonly referred to as Highway 129 , is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . Located in the Algoma and Sudbury districts , the highway extends for 221 kilometres ( 137 mi ) from a junction with Highway 17 in Thessalon to the town of Chapleau , just north of High...
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( What Is ) Love is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez . Originally entitled What Is Love , the song appeared on the soundtrack to The Back up Plan ( 2010 ) , a film in which Lopez stars . The song was later included on Lopez 's seventh studio album Love ( 2011 ) , as the album 's title trac...
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Loved is a browser based platform video game developed by Alexander Ocias , an Australian graphic designer and artist . Written in Adobe Flash , the game was built over the course of about half a year in Ocias ' spare time . Released online on 14 June 2010 onto various game hosting websites , it has garnered sizeable ...
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The Flannan Isles ( Scottish Gaelic Na h Eileanan unk , pronounced n unk unk an unk ) or alternatively , the Seven Hunters are a small island group in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland , approximately 32 kilometres ( 20 mi ) west of the Isle of Lewis . They may take their name from Saint Flannan , the seventh centu...
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Interstate 780 ( I 780 ) is an Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California . It serves to connect Interstate 80 in Vallejo with Interstate 680 just north of the Benicia Martinez Bridge in Benicia . Originally , this segment was part of I 680 before that Interstate was extended an...
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The April 6 8 , 2006 , tornado outbreak was a major tornado outbreak in the central and parts of the southern United States that began on April 6 , 2006 , in the Great Plains and continued until April 8 in South Carolina , with most of the activity on April 7 . The hardest hit area was Middle Tennessee where several ...
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Tropical Storm Karina was a weak , short lived tropical cyclone that developed during the 2008 Pacific hurricane season . The 12th tropical cyclone and 11th named storm of the season , it originated out of a tropical wave in the North Atlantic hurricane basin . The wave entered the Pacific Ocean on August 30 and spawn...
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Spring of Life is a song by Japanese girl group Perfume from their fourth studio album Level3 ( 2013 ) . The song was released as the album 's lead single on 11 April 2012 . It was written , composed and produced by Yasutaka Nakata . The song is a dance track , which features instrumentation from synthesizers and key...
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State Route 513 ( SR 513 ) is a 3 . 35 mile long ( 5 . 39 km ) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington , located entirely within the city of Seattle in King County . The highway travels north as Montlake Boulevard from an interchange with SR 520 and over the Montlake Bridge to the University of Washington campu...
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My Life with Master is an independently published role playing game written by Paul Czege and published by Half Meme Press ( it was first released at the 2003 Gen Con gaming convention ) . My Life with Master is a game about role playing the servants or minions of an evil Master or Mistress . The game is still in pr...
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Severe Tropical Storm Cecil in May 1989 caused devastating floods in central Vietnam , killing 751 people . The storm developed as a tropical depression over the South China Sea on May 22 . Tracking north northwestward , the system steadily intensified , attaining peak winds of 110 km h ( 70 mph ) . The Joint Typhoon...
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Oh , What a Knight is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film follows a young woman , named May Brandon , who dreams a medieval fantasy in which she is wooed , rescued and married by a loyal knight . When she awakes , she dismisses her fianc and tells him of her dream . He deci...
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Por Debajo de la Mesa ( Underneath the Table ) is a song written by Armando Manzanero and performed by Mexican recording artist Luis Miguel . Arranged by Bebu Silvetti , it was one of the two original compositions written for Miguel 's fifteenth studio album Romances . It was released as the lead single from the al...
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In Norse mythology , Sigyn ( Old Norse victorious girl friend ) is a goddess and is the wife of Loki . Sigyn is attested in the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources , and the Prose Edda , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson . In the Poetic Edda , little information ...
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M 24 is a state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan that extends 75 . 691 miles ( 121 . 813 km ) through Southeast Michigan and The Thumb , from northeast Auburn Hills to Unionville . It starts at an interchange with Interstate 75 ( I 75 ) and ends where it merges with M 25 . While the M 24 designation ...
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PRR 460 , nicknamed the Lindbergh Engine , is a Pennsylvania Railroad E6s steam locomotive now located in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania , outside of Strasburg , Pennsylvania in the United States . It was built in 1914 and became famous after racing an aircraft to New York City carrying newsreels of Charles Lind...
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Margaret Chin ( born May 26 , 1954 ) is the Council member for the 1st District of the New York City Council . A Democrat , she and Queens Council member Peter Koo comprise the Asian American delegation of the city council . The district includes all or parts of Battery Park City , Chinatown , Civic Center , East Vill...
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The T30 Howitzer Motor Carriage ( HMC ) was a United States Army self propelled gun used in World War II . Its design was based on requirements for an assault gun issued by the Armored Force in 1941 and it was built as an interim solution until a fully tracked design was complete . Produced by the White Motor Company...
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Whatever It Takes is a song by British singer songwriter Leona Lewis from her debut studio album , Spirit ( 2007 ) . Lewis co wrote it with Tony Reyes and Novel the latter also co produced it with Dallas Austin . It was the first song to be written for Spirit and one of only two songs on the album to involve Lewi...
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Intimidator is a steel roller coaster built by Bolliger Mabillard at Carowinds . The roller coaster is located in the Carowinds Plaza section of the park . Intimidator is the thirteenth roller coaster installed at Carowinds and is located near the entrance of the theme park . It is currently one of the tallest , faste...
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Hurricane Joanne was one of four tropical cyclones to bring gale force winds to the Southwestern United States in the 20th century . A tropical depression developed on September 30 , 1972 . It then moved west northwest and intensified into a hurricane on October 1 . Hurricane Joanne peaked as a Category 2 hurricane , ...
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M 36 is a state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan that runs in a west east direction from Mason to Whitmore Lake . The trunkline connects US Highway 127 ( US 127 ) south of Lansing and US 23 north of Ann Arbor . The highway connects several smaller communities in the rural areas alo...
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SM U 2 or U II was a U 1 class submarine or U boat built for and operated by the Austro Hungarian Navy ( German Kaiserliche und Knigliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K. Kriegsmarine ) . U 2 was designed by American Simon Lake 's Lake Torpedo Boat Company and built at the navy yard in Pola . She was one of two Lake des...
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The 1864 Atlantic hurricane season was the third consecutive Atlantic hurricane season with no hurricane landfall in the United States the longest period on record . However , in the absence of modern satellite and other remote sensing technologies , only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships...
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Saint Lucia sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , China . The 2008 Saint Lucian team included four athletes that competed in two sports swimming and athletics . Of these four athletes , Danielle Beaubrun , at age 18 , was the youngest of the competitors . Dominic Johnson , at age 32 , w...
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New York State Route 321 ( NY 321 ) is a state highway in Onondaga County , New York , in the United States . The southern terminus of the route is at an intersection with U.S. Route 20 ( US 20 ) in the village of Skaneateles . Its northern terminus is at an intersection with NY 5 in Bennetts Corners , a hamlet within ...
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The Grumman XSBF , also known by the company designation G 14 , was an American biplane scout bomber developed by Grumman Aircraft for the United States Navy during the 1930s . Derived from Grumman 's successful Fifi fighter , the aircraft was developed at a time when the biplane was giving way to the monoplane . In...
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No Debes Jugar ( English You Shouldn 't Play Around ) is a song recorded by American recording artist Selena for her first live album Live ( 1993 ) . It was composed by Selena y Los Dinos keyboardist Ricky Vela and Selena 's brother and principal record producer A.B. Quintanilla III . The song was produced by Qui...
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HMS Basilisk was a B class destroyer built for the Royal Navy around 1930 . Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet , she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936 . The ship escorted convoys and conducted anti submarine patrols early in World War II before participating in the Norwegian Campaign . Basilisk was...
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Hurricane Madeline was a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in Mexico in October 1976 . Madeline formed on September 29 , not far from Central America . The next day , the circulation dissipated , and as a result weakened to a remnant low . Four days later , on October 3 , the low regenerated into a tropical depre...
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One Day in History was a single day initiative by several UK heritage organisations that aimed to provide a historical record of the everyday life of the British public in the early 21st century . Described as the world 's biggest blog , it encouraged UK citizens to write diary entries of 100 650 words of what they...
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Route 88 is a state highway in the northern part of Ocean County , New Jersey , United States . It runs 10 . 02 mi ( 16 . 13 km ) from an intersection with U.S. Route 9 ( US 9 ) and County Route 547 ( CR 547 ) in Lakewood Township to an intersection with Route 35 in Point Pleasant . It is a two lane undivided road tha...
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The 1953 Football Association Charity Shield was the 29th FA Charity Shield , an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season 's Football League First Division and FA Cup competitions . It was held at Highbury Stadium on 12 October 1953 . The game was played between Arsenal , champions of the...
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The 156th Boat Race took place on 3 April 2010 . 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 was won by Cambridge . Of the eighteen competitors in the race , six were British . Of the non British rowers , the Ox...
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HMS Blonde was the lead ship of the her class of scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century . She led the 7th Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean Fleet from completion until 1912 . The ship was temporarily assigned to the 1st Destroyer Flotilla before she joined the 4th Battle S...
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In hip hop culture , a grill ( most commonly spelled as unk also fronts or golds ) is a type of jewelry worn over the teeth . Grills are made of metal and are generally removable . They began to be worn by hip hop artists in the early 1980s , and upgraded during the 90s in Oakland , but they became more widely popular ...
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Tong Yabghu Qaghan ( died 628 ) ( also known as T 'ung Yabghu , Ton Yabghu , Tong Yabghu Khagan , Tun Yabghu , and Tong unk , Traditional Chinese unk , Simplified Chinese unk , pinyin unk unk , Wade Giles t 'ung yeh hu k 'o han ) was khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate from 618 to 628 AD . His name is usually ...
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A rainband is a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated . Rainbands can be stratiform or convective , and are generated by differences in temperature . When noted on weather radar imagery , this precipitation elongation is referred to as banded structure . ...
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Moto Racer Advance is a motocross racing game developed by Adeline Software International , produced by Delphine Software International and published by Ubisoft for the Game Boy Advance . It was released in PAL regions on October 4 , 2002 and in North America on December 4 , 2002 . It is part of the Moto Racer series a...
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Svalbard and Jan Mayen ( Norwegian Svalbard og Jan Mayen , ISO 3166 1 alpha 2 SJ , ISO 3166 1 alpha 3 unk , ISO 3166 1 numeric 744 ) is a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166 1 of two parts of Norway under separate jurisdictions Svalbard and Jan Mayen . While the two are combined for the purposes of t...
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Walk Away is a song by American recording artist Christina Aguilera , taken from her fourth studio album , Stripped ( 2002 ) . The song was written by Aguilera , Scott Storch and Matt Morris . Its production was handled by Storch , while Aguilera and E. unk served as vocal producers . The track is a piano driven bal...
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Hurricane Winifred was the last tropical cyclone to make landfall in the busy 1992 Pacific hurricane season . unk western Mexico , especially Colima and Michoacn , Hurricane Winifred brought heavy rain and destruction to the area . Rains flooded farms and roads , and caused more than 5 million ( 1992 USD , 8 . 43 mil...
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State Route 243 ( SR 243 ) , or the Banning Idyllwild Panoramic Highway , is a 30 mile ( 50 kilometer ) two lane highway that runs from Banning , California ( in the north ) to Idyllwild , California ( in the south ) in Riverside County , California . The highway is a connector between Interstate 10 ( I 10 ) and SR...
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The 142nd Boat Race took place on 6 April 1996 . 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 . Umpired by a former Blue , Mike Sweeney , Cambridge won by two and three quarter lengths in the second fastest time in t...
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Superfinalen ( The Super Final ) is a former Norwegian association football competition contested between the previous season 's champions of the Norwegian Premier League and the Norwegian Football Cup . The super cup was incorporated as part of a charity themed television show broadcast on TV2 , with the profits fr...
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Peter Trombino is a retired lacrosse attackman who played professional field lacrosse in the Major League Lacrosse ( MLL ) from 2007 to 2008 . He starred as a member of the Princeton Tigers men 's lacrosse team from 2004 through 2007 . He earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors , two United States Intercollegiate L...
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Pseudoplectania nigrella , commonly known as the ebony cup , the black false unk , or the hairy black cup , is a species of fungi in the family Sarcosomataceae . The fruit bodies of this saprobic fungus are small blackish cups , typically up to 2 cm ( 0 . 8 in ) broad , that grow in groups on soil , often amongst pine ...
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The Davis Theater , originally known as the Pershing Theater , is a first run movie theater located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago . Built in 1918 , the theater has operated in different capacities in its history , showing silent films , German language films , and various forms of stage performance . I...
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Vinkensport ( Dutch for finch sport ) is a competitive animal sport in which male common chaffinches are made to compete for the highest number of bird calls in an hour . Also called unk ( finch sitting ) , it is primarily active in the Dutch speaking region of Flanders in Belgium . Vinkensport traces its origins...
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SMS Babenberg was a pre dreadnought battleship built by the Austro Hungarian Navy in 1899 . She was launched on 4 October 1902 as the last of three Habsburg class battleships . Along with her sister ships , she participated at the bombardment of Ancona during World War I. At the end of the war , she was ceded to Gre...
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Ivar Hippe ( born 19 March 1953 ) is a Norwegian political consultant , former journalist and presenter . He received national media attention in 1982 when he was expelled from Argentina by the government . On his return to Norway he began working for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( NRK ) . In 1999 he became e...
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The National Assembly Building ( Slovene unk unk unk , also unk the Parliament ( Parlament ) in Ljubljana , the capital of Slovenia , is a modernist palace housing the legislature of Slovenia . Built between 1954 and 1959 by the architect Vinko Glanz , it is a three storey building with an area of 2 , 200 m2 ( 24 , 0...
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The Pine Middle School shooting was a school shooting that occurred in Reno , Nevada , United States , on March 14 , 2006 . The shooting was perpetrated by then fourteen year old student James Scott Newman who shot and injured two 14 year old eighth grade classmates with a .38 caliber revolver that had belonged to...
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Interstate 155 ( I 155 ) is a north south spur of Interstate 55 that provides an interstate connection for the Illinois cities of Peoria and Lincoln . The northern terminus for the interstate is just east of Peoria , at Interstate 74 exit 101 in Morton . The southern terminus , which is northwest of Lincoln , is loca...
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Yip Pin Xiu ( Chinese unk pinyin Y unk ) , born 10 January 1992 ) is a Singaporean backstroke swimmer . She has muscular dystrophy and competes in the S3 category for the physically impaired . Since 2005 , she has won medals in international competitions such as the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games , Japan Paralym...
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You 're Whole is an American satirical television series created by Michael Ian Black for Adult Swim . The show parodies self help infomercials and stars Black as the host , Randall Tyree Mandersohn . In it , Mandersohn advertises his systems of objects and actions designed to help people with their issues . It was th...
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Joust 2 Survival of the Fittest is an arcade game developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1986 . It is a sequel to Williams ' 1982 game Joust . Like its predecessor , Joust 2 is a platform game that features two dimensional ( 2D ) graphics . The player uses a button and joystick to control a knight riding a...
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Omar Derdour ( Arabic unk ) , full name Abou El unk Omar Derdour ( 13 October 1913 19 March 2009 ) , was an Algerian Muslim leader , nationalist , and political worker . A disciple of Abdelhamid Ben Badis , he was active in the Islamic reformation of Algeria and the Algerian War of Independence . He directed the Fr...
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Can 't B Good is a song by American recording artist Janet Jackson , taken from her tenth studio album Discipline ( 2008 ) . The song was written and produced by D. DoRohn Gough and Ne Yo , and was released as the fourth and final single from Discipline on March 18 , 2008 . The song is a soulful , jazzy R B track...
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Kepler 11c is an exoplanet discovered in the orbit of the sun like star Kepler 11 by the Kepler spacecraft , a NASA telescope aiming to discover Earth like planets . It is the second planet from its star , and is most likely a water planet with a thin hydrogen helium atmosphere . Kepler 11c orbits Kepler 11 ever...
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Catharine Ball Condon ( born September 30 , 1951 ) , ne Catharine unk Ball , is an American former competition swimmer , Olympic champion , and former world record holder in three events . At the 1968 Summer Olympics , she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. 4 100 meter medley relay team . Ball is a for...
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Homansbyen Depot ( Norwegian Homansbyen unk ) , officially Kristiania unk ( Kristiania Tramway Installation ) was an Oslo Tramway depot at Sporveisgata 8 near Bislett in Oslo , Norway . It was constructed for Kristiania Sporveisselskab in 1874 and was the first tramway depot in the country . The facilities were desi...
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The Picardy Spaniel is a breed of dog developed in France for use as a gundog . It is related to the Blue Picardy Spaniel , and still has many similarities , but the Picardy Spaniel is the older of the two breeds . It is thought to be one of the two oldest continental spaniel breeds and was favoured by the French nobil...
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Trondheim Airport Station ( IATA code TRD ) , also known as Vrnes Station ( Norwegian Vrnes unk ) , is a railway station located within the terminal complex of Trondheim Airport , Vrnes in Stjrdal , Norway . Situated on the Nordland Line , it serves both express trains and the Trndelag Commuter Rail both operated by ...
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Paparazzi is a song recorded in the Japanese language by South Korean girl group Girls ' Generation for their second Japanese language studio album , Girls Peace ( 2012 ) . It was released as the album 's lead single on June 27 , 2012 . Written by Fredrik unk , Johan Becker , and Junji Ishiwatari , and produced by ...
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Rembrandt ( 15 March 1977 30 October 2001 ) was a dark bay Westphalian gelding ridden for Germany by Nicole Uphoff in dressage competitions . Together , the pair won four Olympic gold medals , three gold and one silver World Equestrian Games medals , and numerous other international championships . Although known as a...
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Don 't Stand Another Chance is a song by American recording artist Janet Jackson , included on her second studio album , Dream Street ( 1984 ) . It was written by Janet Jackson , her brother Marlon Jackson and John Barnes . Marlon also produced it , and provided backing vocals along with his brothers Michael , Tito ,...
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The French ironclad Trident was the second and last ship of the Colbert class ironclads that were built for the French Navy in the 1870s . The ship was the flagship of the deputy commander of the Mediterranean Squadron for most of her career . She took part in the French occupation of Tunisia , notably shelling and la...
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New York State Route 273 ( NY 273 ) was a state highway in northern Washington County , New York , in the United States . It began at an intersection with U.S. Route 4 ( US 4 ) east of the village of Whitehall and ended at the Vermont state line in the town of Hampton , just east of a junction with NY 22A . The route p...
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Entoloma murrayi , commonly known as the yellow unicorn Entoloma or the unicorn pinkgill , is a species of fungus in the Entolomataceae family . First described from New England ( USA ) in 1859 , the species is found in eastern North America , Central and South America , and southeast Asia , where it grows on the groun...
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253 Mathilde unk is a main belt asteroid about 50 km in diameter that was discovered by Johann Palisa in 1885 . It has a relatively elliptical orbit that requires more than four years to circle the Sun . This asteroid has an unusually slow rate of rotation , requiring 17 . 4 days to complete a 360 revolution about ...
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George Washington Truett , also known as George W. Truett ( May 6 , 1867 July 7 , 1944 ) , was an American clergyman who was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas , Texas , from 1897 until 1944 , and the president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1927 to 1929 . He was one of the most famous Southern...
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The 112th Boat Race took place on 26 March 1966 . 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 was won by Oxford by three and three quarter lengths . Isis won the reserve race while Cambridge won the Women 's ...
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New York State Route 309 ( NY 309 ) is a state highway located entirely in Fulton County , New York , in the United States . The southern terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 29A in Gloversville . The northern terminus of the route is at a junction with Lily Lake Road in the hamlet of Bleecker , where th...
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Hurricane Baker was a major hurricane that affected the Leeward Islands , Greater Antilles , and the Gulf Coast of the United States . The tropical cyclone was the second intense hurricane , second hurricane , and second tropical storm of the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season . Hurricane Baker attained peak winds of 120 m...
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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 . The ...
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New City , New Drama is the pilot episode of The Hills , the first spin off of Laguna Beach The Real Orange County . It originally aired on MTV on May 31 , 2006 . In the episode , Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag move into an apartment in Los Angeles . Conrad befriends fellow Teen Vogue intern Whitney Port , while Mo...
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Libert was a pre dreadnought battleship of the French Navy , and the lead ship of her class . She was laid down in November 1902 , launched in April 1905 , and completed in March 1908 , over a year after the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought made ships like Libert obsolete . After her commissioning , Li...
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Ganga Bruta ( literally translated as Brutal Gang also known as Rough Diamond ) is a 1933 Brazilian drama film directed by Humberto Mauro . Starring Durval Bellini and unk Selva , it follows a man who , after killing his wife on their wedding night , moves to a city where he becomes part of a love triangle . It was ...
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Miracle of the Moment is a song recorded by contemporary Christian singer and songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman . Written and produced by Chapman and Matt unk , it was released as the lead single from Chapman 's 2007 studio album This Moment . Lyrically , the song challenges the listener to let go of their past regret...
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Corbin Sharun ( born September 6 , 1988 ) is a professional Canadian football defensive back and special teams specialist who is currently a free agent . He was drafted by the Edmonton Eskimos in 2010 , where he played for five seasons . He played college football for the St. Francis Xavier University X Men and junior...
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Coprinopsis atramentaria , commonly known as the common ink cap or inky cap , is an edible ( but sometimes poisonous , see below ) mushroom found in Europe and North America . Previously known as Coprinus atramentarius , it is the second best known ink cap and previous member of the genus Coprinus after C. unk . It is ...
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The February 1969 nor 'easter was a severe winter storm that affected the Mid Atlantic and New England regions of the United States between February 8 and February 10 . The nor 'easter developed on February 8 , and as it moved towards the northeast , intensifying to become a powerful storm . The system dropped paralyz...
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State Route 500 ( SR 500 ) is a 13 . 32 mile long ( 21 . 44 km ) Ohio State Route that runs between the Indiana state line and Paulding in the US state of Ohio . None of the highway is listed on the National Highway System . Most of the route is a rural two lane highway and passes through both farmland and residenti...
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The Tupolev Tu 12 ( development designation Tu 77 ) was an experimental Soviet jet powered medium bomber developed from the successful piston engined Tupolev Tu 2 bomber after the end of World War II . It was designed as a transitional aircraft to familiarize Tupolev and the VVS with the issues involved with jet ...