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SMS Victoria Louise was the lead ship of her class of protected cruisers , built for the German Imperial Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine ) in the late 1890s . She was laid down at the AG Weser shipyard in 1895 , launched in March 1897 , and commissioned into the German fleet in February 1899 . She was named after Princess Vi...
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The Milwaukee Airport Railroad Station is an Amtrak railway station which opened for service on January 18 , 2005 . It is located at 5601 South 6th Street , just south of Wisconsin Highway 119 , near the western edge of General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States . The facility accom...
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The 1884 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy in the 1884 college football season . The team was the fourth intercollegiate football squad to represent the United States Naval Academy , and was the final time the school played a single game season . The squad was captained by rushe...
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Fool 's Gold Loaf is a sandwich made by the Colorado Mine Company , a restaurant in Denver , Colorado . The sandwich consists of a single warmed , hollowed out loaf of bread filled with the contents of one jar of creamy peanut butter and one jar of grape jelly , and a pound of bacon . The sandwich 's connection to Elv...
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Big Thunder Ski Jumping Centre was a twin ski jumping hill located in Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario , Canada . It constitutes part of Big Thunder National Training Centre . The first hills were built by Knute and Thor Hansen and opened in 1963 . They were originally known as Lille Norway Ski Area , then Mt . Norw...
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Tropical Storm Andres was the only tropical cyclone on record to strike El Salvador . The first named storm of the active 1997 Pacific hurricane season , Andres formed on June 1 off the coast of Mexico . It initially moved toward the coast , although a change in steering winds turned the storm toward Mexico and Guatema...
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Patrick Joseph Alexander Paddy Moran ( March 11 , 1877 January 14 , 1966 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender . Moran played all but one of his 16 seasons for the Quebec Hockey Club , from 1901 to 1917 in the 1909 10 season , Moran played for the All Montreal and the Haileybury Comets . Moran was n...
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Ice Cream Freeze ( Let 's Chill ) is a pop song by American recording artist and actress Miley Cyrus , performing as Hannah Montana the alter ego of Miley Stewart a character she played on the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana . The song was written by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil and produced by ...
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The 84th Boat Race took place on 19 March 1932 . 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 . The race was umpired by former Oxford rower Harcourt Gilbey Gold on a shortened because of repairs to Putney Bridge . Cambri...
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The Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System ( ATCF ) is a piece of software originally developed to run on a personal computer for the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ( JTWC ) in 1988 , and the National Hurricane Center ( NHC ) in 1990 . ATCF remains the main piece of forecasting software used for the United States ...
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M 29 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs in a south north direction from Chesterfield Township to Marysville . It generally runs along the shore of Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River . The M 29 designation has been used twice in Michigan starting in 1919 . The first designation ne...
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Njai Dasima ( unk unk Perfected Spelling Nyai Dasima ) is a 1932 film from the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) which was directed by Bachtiar Effendi for Tan 's Film . It was the second film adapted from G. Francis ' 1896 novel Tjerita Njai Dasima , following a silent version in 1929 . Starring Momo and Oesman ...
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The 70th Boat Race took place on 13 March 1913 . 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 . The two crews contained a total of ...
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The Seychelles women 's national football team is the national team of the Seychelles . It does not officially exist and has not played in a FIFA recognised match . The national team has played in two eighty minute long games in 2005 in a tournament hosted by Mauritius , with the Seychelles losing both matches . An of...
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The History of British Political Parties , also referred to as Politico 's Guide to the History of British Political Parties , is a reference book about political parties in the United Kingdom . Written by David Boothroyd , it was published in 2001 by Politico 's Publishing Ltd and distributed in the United States by I...
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Duff Gordon Sir Richard Cooley ( March 29 , 1873 August 9 , 1937 ) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned 17 seasons , 13 of which were spent in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) . Cooley , an outfielder and first baseman , had a career batting average of .294 in 1 , 317 games played . He compiled 849 r...
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Vanuatu competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , China . A total of three Vanuatuan athletes competed in two sports . Moses Kamut and Elis Lapenmal competed in , respectively , the men 's and women 's 100m sprints , and Priscilla Tommy competed in women 's singles table tennis after being selected by the IOC '...
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Steffen Peters ( born September 18 , 1964 ) is a German born equestrian who competes for the United States in dressage . He has participated in three Olympic Games , winning a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics . Peters has been successful in numerous other international competitions , including winning team bro...
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HMS Pioneer was a Colossus class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II . She was modified whilst under construction into an aircraft maintenance carrier . The ship arrived in Australia in mid 1945 to support operations by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese forces . She supported the Br...
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Rihanna ( originally titled and alternatively known as Rihanna The Last Girl on Earth ) is a coffee table photo book by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna and British artist Simon Henwood . Henwood envisioned the project as the depiction of a journey , as it includes professional and candid photos by him , that sho...
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Lemurs ' Park ( also known locally as Parc de unk Madagascar ) is a small botanical garden and lemur reserve covering 5 ha ( 12 acres ) , and is located 22 km ( 14 mi ) southwest of Antananarivo , Madagascar . It was founded around 2000 by Laurent unk and Maxime unk . Most of its nine lemur species are free ranging w...
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The dusky woodswallow ( Artamus unk ) , is a bird species of forests and woodlands in temperate and subtropical regions , extending into tropical areas around the Atherton Tableland , in eastern and southern Australia . The global population of the species has as yet not been formally confirmed , but it has been offici...
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Hypnotized , released in Britain as A Quack unk , is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film focuses on May Smalley and Jack , who loves her , who attend a traveling show that comes to their little town . The show consists of a hypnotist and a Hindu magician and proves to be a p...
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Inside Out is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears , included on her seventh studio album Femme Fatale ( 2011 ) . It was written by Lukasz Gottwald , Jacob Kasher Hindlin , Mathieu Jomphe , Max Martin and Bonnie McKee whilst production was handled by Dr. Luke , Max Martin and Billboard . Musically , In...
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King 's Highway 80 , commonly referred to as Highway 80 , was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . It travelled in an east west direction south of Sarnia from Courtright to Strathburn . Beginning at the St. Clair Parkway near the shores of the St. Clair River , the route travelled 69...
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St Enghenedl 's Church , Llanynghenedl , is a former parish church in Anglesey , north Wales , dedicated to the son of a 6th century King of Powys . According to the 19th century antiquarian Angharad Llwyd , the first church in Llanynghenedl was erected in about 620 . A new church was erected in 1862 , replacing a bu...
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Boletus subluridellus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae . Described as new to science in 1971 by American mycologists , the bolete is found in the eastern United States and Canada . It grows on the ground in coniferous and mixed forests in a mycorrhizal association with deciduous trees , especially...
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MacPaint is a bitmap based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24 , 1984 . It was sold separately for US 195 with its word processor counterpart , MacWrite . MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that co...
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The Russian monitor Admiral Spiridov was the name ship of her class of monitors built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1860s . The ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet upon completion and remained there for her entire career . Aside from an accidental collision her service was uneventful . The sister ships we...
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HMS Ocean was the last of the Royal Navy 's four Prince Consort class ironclads to be completed in the mid 1860s . She was originally laid down as a 91 gun second rate ship of the line , and was converted during construction to an armoured frigate . The ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station and ser...
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The Special Troops Battalion , 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team is a special troops battalion of the United States Army headquartered at Caserma Del Din in Vicenza , Italy . It is the organization for the command elements of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team . The battalion contains the brigade 's senior comman...
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Playa de Oro virus ( OROV ) is a probable species of hantavirus found in the rodents Oryzomys couesi and Sigmodon mascotensis in the Mexican state of Colima . The former is thought to be the main host . The sequences of parts of the virus 's RNA based genome have been determined they differ by 7 10 in amino acid co...
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New York State Route 418 ( NY 418 ) is a 3 . 50 mile ( 5 . 63 km ) state highway located entirely within the Adirondack Park in Warren County , New York , in the United States . The route begins just west of the hamlet of Thurman Station , where Athol Road changes designations from County Route 4 ( CR 4 ) to NY 418 . ...
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I Invented Sex is a song by American R B singer Trey Songz , and features Canadian recording artist Drake . Together , they wrote the song alongside Tony Scales and its producer , Los Da Mystro . It was released to urban airplay as the third single from Songz 's third studio album Ready on October 13 , 2009 . The so...
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Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri ( born c . 1948 also known as unk ) is a unk speaking Indigenous artist from Australia 's Western Desert region . Ngoia Pollard married Jack Tjampitjinpa , who became an artist working with the Papunya Tula company , and they had five children . Having commenced painting in 1997 , Ngoia Pol...
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To My Surprise is the only album by American alternative rock band To My Surprise . Released on October 7 , 2003 by Roadrunner Records , it was the only album that the band released before disbanding in 2006 . The album was intended to be self produced by Shawn Crahan and Brandon Darner , but after producer Rick Rubin ...
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Rugrats Search for Reptar is a platform video game that was released in 1998 for PlayStation in North America and in the PAL region by THQ . The game is based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats which aired from 1991 until 2004 . The game follows the main character of the cartoon , Tommy Pickles , who has lost ...
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Wings is the fifteenth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler . It was released in Europe on 14 May 2005 by Stick Music , and on 12 June 2006 in the UK under the title Celebrate . The album spawned two singles , Louise and Celebrate . The majority of newly written tracks were composed by Tyler and French songwri...
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The Battle of Saint Pierre was a military confrontation on March 25 , 1776 , near the Quebec village of Saint Pierre , south of Quebec City . This confrontation , which occurred during the Continental Army 's siege of Quebec following its defeat at the Battle of Quebec , was between forces that were both largely comp...
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Pennsylvania Route 737 ( PA 737 ) is a state highway in Berks County , Pennsylvania . The route runs from U.S. Route 222 ( US 222 ) in Kutztown north to PA 143 in Albany Township . PA 737 heads north from an interchange with the US 222 Kutztown Bypass north of Kutztown on Krumsville Road . It continues north through a ...
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Pennsylvania Route 463 ( PA 463 ) is a 12 . 9 mile long ( 20 . 8 km ) route completely in Montgomery County , Pennsylvania . Its western terminus is at PA 63 ( Welsh Road ) in Hatfield Township and its eastern terminus is at PA 611 in Horsham . It runs through the northern suburban areas of Philadelphia and passes th...
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Linton Muldoon Treacy ( June 4 , 1887 March 13 , 1929 ) , better known as Pete Muldoon , was a Canadian ice hockey coach and pioneer in the western United States , particularly known for bringing a Stanley Cup championship to Seattle , Washington . He is best known for reportedly putting a curse on the Chicago Black H...
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Mushroom ketchup is a style of ketchup ( also spelled catsup ) that is prepared with mushrooms as its primary ingredient . Originally , ketchup in the United Kingdom was prepared with mushrooms as a primary ingredient , instead of tomato , the main ingredient in contemporary preparations . Historical preparations inv...
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Beatrice Alice Hicks ( January 2 , 1919 October 21 , 1979 ) was an American engineer , the first woman engineer to be hired by Western Electric , and both co founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers . Despite entering the field at a time where engineering was seen as an inappropriate career for a...
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William Glover Farrow ( 24 September 1918 15 October 1942 ) was a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps who participated in the Doolittle Raid . Born to Isaac and Jessie Farrow , he graduated from high school in 1935 and attended the University of South Carolina . Farrow joined the Air Corps training program ...
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The 1914 Atlantic hurricane season was the least active Atlantic hurricane season on record , with only one known tropical storm . Although hurricane season typically encompasses a much larger time span , actual activity was confined to the middle of September . The only tropical cyclone of the year developed in the r...
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The Mermaid is a 1910 American silent short comedy produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film focuses on John Gary , a hotel owner , who wants to revitalize his business . After reading about a reported mermaid sighting , he has his daughter Ethel pose as a mermaid and gets a newspaper reporter to witness and photog...
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Delaware Route 261 ( DE 261 ) and Pennsylvania Route 261 ( PA 261 ) , also known as Foulk Road , is a 6 . 88 mile ( 11 . 07 km ) state highway running through Delaware and Pennsylvania . DE 261 runs 4 . 62 miles ( 7 . 44 km ) through New Castle County , Delaware from an interchange with U.S. Route 202 ( US 202 ) and D...
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Real and True is a song written and performed by American rapper Future , American singer Miley Cyrus , and English singer Mr Hudson . It was released as a single on November 5 , 2013 , by A1 Records , unk , and Epic Records . Produced by the artists ' frequent collaborator Mike Will Made It , the song is a pop and R...
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Tropical Storm Jerry was a short lived tropical storm that formed in the latter half of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season . Forming as a tropical depression from a tropical wave on October 6 near Barbados , Jerry intensified into a tropical storm early the following day on October 7 while initially located under an e...
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unk Ralph ( born 8 August 1988 ) is an Australian water polo centre back driver . She attended the Curtin University of Technology and is a dental therapist . She competes for the Fremantle Marlins in the National Water Polo League , and was on sides that won the league championship in 2003 , 2004 , 2006 and 2007 . Sh...
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One Day at HorrorLand is the sixteenth book in Goosebumps , the series of children 's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R. L. Stine . It was adapted into a two part episode for the television series , which was later released on VHS and DVD . A comic adaptation of the book was included in the graphic nov...
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Lucky and Squash is an 2012 American children 's book written by Jeanne Birdsall and illustrated with watercolor paintings by Jane Dyer published by Harper . The two eponymous characters are dogs based on Birdsall 's and Dyer 's actual dogs , Cagney and unk , a Boston Terrier and a Tibetan Terrier respectively . Lucky...
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Black Tears is a song by Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger , from their sixth studio album Dream Days at the Hotel Existence . The song is an acoustic ballad in a folk music style , beginning with one guitar and a lead vocal , later introducing a guitar with a synthesised effect from the first chorus . Fo...
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The National Police Memorial is a memorial in central London , commemorating about 4000 police officers killed in the course of their duties in the United Kingdom . It was designed by Lord Foster of Thames Bank and Per unk and unveiled in 2005 . The Project Architect for Foster was Peter Ridley . Historical backgro...
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Chai Trong rong ( Chinese unk pinyin unk unk Wade Giles unk unk Pe h e j unk Tng unk 13 June 1935 11 January 2014 ) , sometimes known in English as Trong Chai , was a Taiwanese politician . He was a member of the Legislative Yuan , the national legislative body of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) . Born...
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Hurricane Martha has been the only known tropical cyclone to make landfall in Panama . The eighteenth named storm and twelfth hurricane of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season , Martha developed in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on November 21 . Initially , the storm developed with sustained winds of 50 mph ( 85 km h ) ...
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Halo.Bungie.Org , often referred to as HBO , is a fansite created in 1999 by Claude Errera ( known online by the pseudonym Louis Wu ) and two associates as a news site for the Bungie video game Halo Combat Evolved . The site was started in 1999 as unk based on the project 's development name before it was called Hal...
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The Tweed Water Spaniel , or Tweed Spaniel , is a breed of dog extinct since the 19th century . It is best known for being involved in the early development of the modern Curly Coated Retriever and Golden Retriever breeds of dogs . They were described as a generally brown athletic dogs from the area around Berwick upo...
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Bubbles is an arcade video game developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1982 . The player uses a joystick to control a bubble in a kitchen sink . The object is to progress through levels by cleaning the sink while avoiding enemies . The game received a mixed reception from critics . Development was handled b...
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The 87th Boat Race took place on 6 April 1935 . 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 former Oxford rower Robert Bourne , Cambridge won by four and a half lengths in a time of 19 minutes 48 seconds . ...
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Recreational Road 8 ( RE 8 ) is a Recreational Road located in McMullen County in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Texas . The highway is approximately 1 . 1 miles ( 1 . 8 km ) in length , and connects Texas State Highway 72 ( TX 72 ) to the community of Calliham and Choke Canyon State Park . The roadway t...
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Mycena fonticola is a species of fungus in the Mycenaceae family . First reported in 2007 , it is known only from central Honshu , in Japan , where it grows on dead leaves and twigs in low elevation forests dominated by oak trees . The fruit body of the fungus has a smooth , violet brown cap up to 2 . 5 cm ( 1 . 0 in...
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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 Blake to Ro...
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Montu is an inverted roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa , Florida . Built by Bolliger Mabillard , it is the park 's second roller coaster designed by the Swiss company following the success of Kumba which opened 3 years prior . When the ride opened on May 16 , 1996 , it was the world 's tallest and fas...
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The 1949 Texas hurricane was an intense tropical cyclone of the 1949 Atlantic hurricane season . Forming in the Pacific Ocean on September 27 , the storm crossed into the Gulf of Mexico one of only a handful of known storms to do so and began to intensify . It ultimately peaked with winds corresponding to high end C...
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In Excelsis Deo is the 10th episode of the first season of The West Wing . It originally aired on NBC December 15 , 1999 , as the show 's Christmas special . Events circle around Toby getting involved in the fate of a dead Korean War veteran , reactions to a severe hate crime , and the ongoing controversy surrounding...
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Stanley Peter Walters , Jr . ( born May 27 , 1948 ) is a former professional American football offensive tackle . After playing college football for Syracuse , he was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the ninth round of the 1972 NFL Draft . He spent three years with the Bengals , starting at left tackle for the majo...
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The Joseph Webb House is a historic Georgian style house at 211 Main Street in Wethersfield , Connecticut . It was designated a National Historic Landmark for its significance as the location of the General George Washington Rochambeau ( French commander ) five day military conference held in 1781 during the America...
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Goliath is a steel coaster roller coaster at the La Ronde located in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . Designed by Bolliger Mabillard , it reaches a maximum height of 174 . 8 feet ( 53 . 3 m ) , a speed of 68 . 4 miles per hour ( 110 . 1 km h ) , and a track length of 4 , 038 . 8 feet ( 1 , 231 . 0 m ) . Construction comm...
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Flicker is a song recorded by American electronic music producer Porter Robinson . It was released on July 28 , 2014 as the fourth single from his debut studio album Worlds ( 2014 ) . Robinson wrote , produced , and performed the track . Musically , the song contains elements of disco and hip hop , as well as sampli...
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Half of Me is a song recorded by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna for her seventh studio album Unapologetic ( 2012 ) . It was written by Emeli Sand , Naughty Boy and Stargate , with production done by the latter two . It is a chamber pop song that sees Rihanna deliver vocals in an experimental fashion . Its lyric...
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The woodblock fragment Bois Protat ( unk unk ( Protat wood block ) also Protat block or Protat woodblock , c . 1370 1380 ) is a fragmentary woodblock for printing , and the images on it are the oldest surviving woodcut images from the Western world . It is cut on both sides , with a scene from Christ 's crucifi...
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Barend Joseph Stokvis ( Dutch pronunciation unk unk unk 16 August 1834 28 September 1902 ) was a physician and professor of physiology and pharmacology at the University of Amsterdam . He is mainly remembered for his description of acute porphyria in 1889 . As a researcher in chemical pathology he made contributio...
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Ricberht ( Old English unk ) , may have briefly ruled East Anglia , a small independent Anglo Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk . Little is known of his life or his reign . According to Bede 's Ecclesiastical History of the English People , Ricberht murdered Eorpwald of E...
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The 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole was a disaster in which an area approximately 65 ft ( 20 m ) across and 300 ft ( 90 m ) deep collapsed in Guatemala City 's Zona 2 , swallowing a three story factory . The sinkhole occurred for a combination of reasons , including Tropical Storm Agatha , the Pacaya Volcano eruption , a...
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State Highway 58 ( abbreviated SH 58 ) is the name of two state highways in Oklahoma . One of them runs for 72 . 7 miles ( 117 . 0 km ) from Medicine Park to the Blaine Custer County line near Hydro , and the other connects US 270 281 SH 3 33 to the Kansas state line , a length of 105 . 9 mi ( 170 . 4 km ) . The...
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State Route 231 ( SR 231 ) is a 74 . 97 mile ( 120 . 65 km ) long state highway in the U.S. state of Washington serving communities in Lincoln and Stevens counties . The highway , located entirely west of Spokane in the Inland Empire , serves Sprague , unk , Reardan , Springdale and Chewelah . The route extends from S...
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Back to Basics Live and Down Under is the fourth video album by American singer songwriter Christina Aguilera . It premiered on television on January 26 , 2008 on VH1 , and was released on DVD on February 4 , 2008 , by RCA Records . The DVD included material from recordings from two of Aguilera s concerts during her...
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The International Association for Plant Taxonomy ( IAPT ) promotes an understanding of plant biodiversity , facilitates international communication of research between botanists , and oversees matters of uniformity and stability in plant names . The IAPT was founded on July 18 , 1950 at the Seventh International Botani...
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German submarine U 42 was a Type IXA U boat of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine that operated during World War II . U 42 was ordered by Kriegsmarine in November 1936 . Her keel was laid down in December 1937 she was launched in February 1939 and commissioned in July 1939 . U 42 had a very short career , being sunk w...
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Dacre Castle is a moated tower house in the village of Dacre , 4 miles ( 6 . 4 km ) south west of Penrith , Cumbria . It was constructed in the mid 14th century , probably by Margaret Multon , against the background of the threat of Scottish invasion and raids , and was held in the Dacre family until the 17th century...
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Basil Ewing Hayden ( May 19 , 1899 January 9 , 2003 ) was an American college basketball player and coach . A Kentucky native , he began playing the sport in the sixth grade and , after a year at Transylvania University , transferred to the University of Kentucky to study chemistry and play on the school 's basketball...
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New York State Route 420 ( NY 420 ) is a north south state highway in St. Lawrence County , New York , in the United States . The southern terminus of the route is at an intersection with U.S. Route 11 ( US 11 ) in the town of Stockholm . Its northern terminus is at a junction with NY 37 in the village of Massena . NY...
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The unk is a 1910 American silent short comedy produced by the Thanhouser Company . The premise of the plot focuses on two businessmen who are friends Will ( or Bill in some publications ) and John . Will gives John the key to his apartment so he had stay there while Will goes on vacation . The landlady of the house le...
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Walter Potter ( 2 July 1835 21 May 1918 ) was an English taxidermist noted for his anthropomorphic dioramas featuring mounted animals mimicking human life , which he displayed at his museum in Bramber , Sussex , England . The exhibition was a well known and popular example of Victorian whimsy for many years , even ...
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No. 285 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) training squadron . Controlled by No. 84 Wing , the squadron was formed in August 1999 and is responsible for training the RAAF 's Lockheed Martin C 130J Hercules aircrew and ground support staff . No. 285 Squadron does not control any flying aircraft but manag...
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Railroad Gazette was a trade journal first published in April 1856 that focused on railroad , transportation and engineering topics . Master mechanics read and used the publication to share information about railway matters with one another . An article in the publication documented what was purported to be the first ...
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No. 285 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) training squadron . Controlled by No. 84 Wing , the squadron was formed in August 1999 and is responsible for training the RAAF 's Lockheed Martin C 130J Hercules aircrew and ground support staff . No. 285 Squadron does not control any flying aircraft but manag...
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I 'm Not Your Hero is a song written , recorded and performed by Canadian duo Tegan and Sara and produced by Greg Kurstin for the album Heartthrob ( 2013 ) . Recorded at Echo Studio and EastWest Studios in California in 2012 , it was released on October 21 of that year as a promotional single . The lyrics for the new...
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The Robot Building , located in the unk business district of Bangkok , Thailand , houses United Overseas Bank 's Bangkok headquarters . It was designed for the Bank of Asia by Sumet Jumsai to reflect the computerization of banking its architecture is a reaction against neoclassical and high tech postmodern architectu...
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New York State Route 380 ( NY 380 ) was a 23 mile ( 37 km ) north south state highway in Chautauqua County , New York , in the United States . The southern terminus of the route was at an intersection with NY 60 in the town of Gerry . Its northern terminus was at a junction with NY 5 north of the village of Brocton i...
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James Fisher Robinson ( October 4 , 1800 October 31 , 1882 ) was the 22nd Governor of Kentucky , serving the remainder of the unfinished term of Governor Beriah Magoffin . Magoffin , a Confederate sympathizer , became increasingly ineffective after the elections of 1861 yielded a supermajority to pro Union forces in ...
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Charles Frederick Horn ( 24 February 1762 3 August 1830 ) was an English musician and composer . Born in Germany , he emigrated to London with few possessions and no knowledge of the English language , yet rose to become a music teacher in the Royal Household . As an editor and arranger , he helped introduce the music...
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William Willie Middleton Wallace ( 23 September 1892 22 August 1915 ) was a rugby union player . He played fullback for Cambridge University RFC and was capped for Scotland in 1913 14 . Having grown up in Edinburgh , Willie Wallace went to King 's College , Cambridge in 1912 , where he was immediately noticed for ...
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John Edgar Faber , Jr . ( January 13 , 1903 January 14 , 1994 ) was an American microbiologist and college football and lacrosse coach at the University of Maryland . Faber served as the Maryland lacrosse coach from 1928 to 1963 , during which time he compiled a 249 57 record and secured numerous national and confere...
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The 107th Boat Race took place on 1 April 1961 . 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 . The race which was delayed , the lead changed hands several times and an Oxford rower slumped and nearly fell out of the boa...
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Marina Mohnen ( born 31 October 1978 ) is a 4 . 5 point wheelchair basketball player , who plays for RSC Kln in Germany , and previously played for S. Stefano Sport in Italy . She also played with the German national team that won the European title in 2005 , 2007 , 2009 and 2011 and was runner up in 2013 . It was als...
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Satsuma ( unk ) was a semi dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) in the first decade of the 20th century . Lead ship of her class , she was the first battleship built in Japan . She was named for Satsuma Province , now a part of Kagoshima prefecture . The ship saw no combat during World W...
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The French ironclad Thtis was a wooden hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the late 1860s . She was named for the Greek sea goddess Thetis . During the Franco Prussian War she was assigned to a squadron of French ships that attempted to blockade the Prussian ports in the Baltic Sea in 1870 . She acc...