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Barbeyella minutissima is a slime mould species of the order Echinosteliales , and the only species of the genus Barbeyella . First described in 1914 from the Jura mountains , its habitat is restricted to montane spruce and spruce fir forests of the Northern Hemisphere , where it has been recorded from Asia , Europe ,...
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Captain Future was a science fiction pulp magazine launched in 1940 by Better Publications , and edited initially by Mort Weisinger . It featured the adventures of Captain Future , a super scientist whose real name was Curt Newton , in every issue . All but two of the novels in the magazine were written by Edmond Hami...
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The Church of St Demetrius ( Bulgarian unk , tsarkva Sveti Dimitar ) is a medieval Eastern Orthodox church in southwestern Bulgaria . It lies in the village of Patalenitsa , administratively part of Pazardzhik Municipality within Pazardzhik Province . The church was built in the 11th 14th century , with a possi...
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Mother is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film is a melodrama that focuses with Will Allen who runs away from home after being violently abused by his stepfather and his mother keeps a candle lit for him to return home . Twenty years later , Will returns home after having bec...
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The Meigs Raid ( also known as the Battle of Sag Harbor ) was a military raid by American Continental Army forces , under the command of Connecticut Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs , on a British Loyalist foraging party at Sag Harbor , New York on May 24 , 1777 during the American Revolutionary War . Six Loyalists were k...
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SM UB 3 was a German Type UB I submarine or U boat in the German Imperial Navy ( German Kaiserliche Marine ) during World War I. She disappeared on her first patrol in May 1915 , and was the first of her class to be lost . UB 3 was ordered in October 1914 and was laid down at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel in ...
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Kraken ( named for the fictional sea monster of the same name ) is a steel floorless roller coaster located at SeaWorld Orlando in the United States . Manufactured by Bolliger Mabillard , the ride features a total of seven inversions including two vertical loops , a dive loop , a spiraling camelback ( zero g roll ) ,...
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Hurricane Lester was the fifteenth tropical cyclone , twelfth named storm and eighth hurricane of the 1998 Pacific hurricane season . Lester originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on September 29 . Under favorable conditions , the storm was classified as a tropical depression on October 15...
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M 83 is a state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan primarily serving as a link between Interstate 75 US Highway 23 ( I 75 US 23 ) in Birch Run and the Bavarian themed town of Frankenmuth . M 83 is primarily a north south trunkline that passes by such landmarks as Bronner 's Chri...
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Mind of a Man is a game show broadcast by Game Show Network , with DeRay Davis as host . On each episode , two female contestants attempt to figure out what men believe about marriage , dating , work , and other subjects . Similar to Family Feud , the questions have previously been answered by a survey of one hundred m...
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The 1812 Louisiana Hurricane was a major hurricane that struck New Orleans , Louisiana , during the War of 1812 . It was the worst storm of the early history of New Orleans and was very likely the hurricane which made the closest landfall known to affect the city . It was first observed in the eastern Caribbean Sea on...
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HMS Campania was a seaplane tender and aircraft carrier , converted from an elderly ocean liner by the Royal Navy early in the First World War . After her conversion was completed in mid 1915 the ship spent her time conducting trials and exercises with the Grand Fleet . These revealed the need for a longer flight deck...
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Lactarius blennius ( commonly known as the Slimy Milkcap or Beech Milkcap ) is a medium sized mushroom of the genus Lactarius found commonly in beech forests in Europe , where it is mycorrhizal , favouring the European Beech ( though associations with other trees are known ) . It was first described by Elias Magnus Fr...
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Robert Peel ( 1723 12 September 1795 ) , commonly known as Parsley Peel , was an influential cotton mill owner and grandfather to Sir Robert Peel , 2nd Baronet , future prime minister of Great Britain . Peel started life as a yeoman farmer but experimented with calico printing , eventually creating a parsley leaf patt...
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Blues for the Red Sun is the second studio album by American rock band Kyuss , released in 1992 . While the album received mainly favorable reviews , it fared poorly commercially , selling only 39 , 000 units . It has since become a very influential album within the stoner rock genre . Blues for the Red Sun was the la...
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HMS Shannon was a Minotaur class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid 1900s . Before the First World War , she served with the Home Fleet , generally as the flagship of a cruiser squadron . The ship remained with the Grand Fleet , as the Home Fleet was renamed when the war began , for the entire war ,...
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Zenas Randall Bliss ( April 17 , 1835 January 2 , 1900 ) was an officer and general in the United States Army and a recipient of the Medal of Honor . He formed the first unit of Seminole Negro Indian Scouts , and his detailed memoirs chronicled life on the Texas frontier . He was the father of Rhode Island Lieutenant...
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Mareike Adermann ( born 3 August 1990 ) is a 4 . 5 point wheelchair basketball player , who plays for the University of Wisconsin Whitewater in the United States . She has also played for the German national team , with which she won two European titles , was runner up at 2010 World Championships , and won a gold med...
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Hurricane Able was a rare hurricane that formed outside of the typical North Atlantic hurricane season . The first tropical cyclone in 1951 , Able developed from a trough of low pressure on May 15 about 300 miles ( 480 km ) south of Bermuda . Initially subtropical in nature , Able acquired tropical characteristics as i...
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Edge of the Ocean is a song recorded by American indie rock band Ivy . It was released as the third single from their third studio album , Long Distance ( 2000 ) . The single was made available as a CD single , 10 , and 12 single in the United States on July 10 , 2001 , before being reissued internationally on May ...
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11 South LaSalle Street Building or Eleven South LaSalle Street Building ( formerly Roanoke Building and Tower and originally Lumber Exchange Building and Tower Addition or simply the Roanoke Building and Lumber Exchange Building ) is a Chicago Landmark building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Place...
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Tropical Storm Georgette was a short lived tropical storm that struck the Baja California Sur in September 2010 . Georgette originated from an area of disturbed weather over the eastern Pacific on September 20 . The next day , the system was upgraded into a tropical storm a short distance south of Baja California Sur ...
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In Roman religion , Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers his name was the Latin word for such a marker . Sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone , and landowners celebrated a festival called the Terminalia in Terminus ' honor each year on February 23 . The Temple of Jupiter Optimus M...
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The Boreray is a breed of sheep originating on the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast of Scotland and surviving as a feral animal on one of the islands , Boreray . The breed , also known as the Boreray Blackface or Hebridean Blackface , was once raised for meat and wool , but is now used mainly for conservation g...
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In 1860 , French photographer Nadar ( real name Gaspard Flix Tournachon ) took a series of photographs of a young intersex person , who had a male build and stature and who may have been female assigned , or self identified as female . Possibly done on commission by Armand Trousseau , the nine photographs have been d...
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The Upper Brook Street Chapel , also known as the Islamic Academy , the Unitarian Chapel and the Welsh Baptist Chapel , is a former chapel with an attached Sunday School on the east side of Upper Brook Street , Chorlton on Medlock , Manchester , England . It is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel , ha...
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Henry Taylor ( 17 March 1885 28 February 1951 ) was an English competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in four Summer Olympics between 1906 and 1920 . Taylor served in the Royal Navy during the First World War , and continued to swim competitively until 1926 . His fortunes declined after he retired and he di...
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Moments is a song by English Irish boy band One Direction from their debut studio album , Up All Night ( 2011 ) . It was written by Ed Sheeran , and Si Hulbert , the song 's producer . In 2011 , as One Direction member Harry Styles told Sheeran that the boy band did not have enough songs for their album , Sheeran of...
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The Restoration is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film focuses on Hugh Logan , a single father who leaves his little girl , May , at home when he goes on a business trip . On the way to the city he is attacked by robbers and left in the road . He is found and taken in , but ...
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The Duesenberg Model A was the first automobile in series production to have hydraulic brakes and the first automobile in series production in the United States with a straight eight engine . Officially known as the Duesenberg Straight Eight , the Model A was first shown in late 1920 in New York City . Production was ...
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Haunting the Chapel is an EP released by American thrash metal band Slayer in 1984 through Metal Blade and Enigma Records . Slayer 's debut album Show No Mercy became Metal Blade 's highest selling , leading to producer Brian Slagel wanting to release an EP . Recorded in Hollywood the recording process proved difficult...
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Gibanica ( Serbian Cyrillic unk , unk sa ) is a traditional pastry dish from Serbia popular all over the Balkans . It is usually made with white cheese and eggs . Recipes can range from sweet to savoury , and from simple to festive and elaborate multi layered cakes . A derivative of the Serbian verb unk , meaning...
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Shambhala Expedicin al Himalaya ( simply known as Shambhala ) is a steel Hyper Coaster roller coaster located at the PortAventura amusement park in unk , Catalonia , Spain . Manufactured by Bolliger Mabillard , it is the tallest ( 78 metres ( 256 ft ) ) and fastest hypercoaster ( 134 kilometres per hour ( 83 mph ) ) ...
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The quagga catshark ( Halaelurus quagga ) is a species of catshark , belonging to the family Scyliorhinidae . A small , slim bodied shark reaching 37 cm ( 15 in ) in length , it has a distinctive color pattern of narrow , dark brown vertical bars , which resemble those of the quagga . Its head is short and flattened ,...
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Katharine Kay Way ( February 20 , 1902 December 9 , 1995 ) was an American physicist best known for her work on the Nuclear Data Project . During World War II , she worked for the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago . She became an adjunct professor at Duke University in 1968 . Education...
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The Liverpool Women 's Suffrage Society was set up in 1894 by Edith Bright , Lydia Allen Booth and Nessie Stewart Brown to promote the enfranchisement of women . The society held its first meeting in a Liverpool temperance hall , with Millicent Fawcett , head of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies ( NUWS...
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The Brazilian ironclad Barroso was an armoured gunboat built for the Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the mid 1860s . Barroso bombarded Paraguayan fortifications in 1866 and 1867 a number of times before she participated in the Passagem de Humait in February 1868 . Afterwards the ship provided fire support ...
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Marek Sobieski ( 24 May 1628 3 June 1652 ) was a Polish noble ( unk ) , starosta ( tenant of the Crown lands ) of Krasnystaw and unk , older brother of King Jan III Sobieski of Poland . He graduated from Nowodworski College in Krakw and Krakw Academy , then traveled and studied in Western Europe . After returning to P...
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A Milhouse Divided is the sixth episode of The Simpsons eighth season . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 1 , 1996 . In the episode , Milhouse 's parents Kirk and Luann get a divorce , causing Homer to examine his own marriage . It was directed by Steven Dean Moore and is the onl...
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God Put a Smile upon Your Face is a song by British alternative rock band Coldplay . It was written by all members of the band for their second studio album , A Rush of Blood to the Head ( 2002 ) . The song is built around prominent acoustic and electric guitar riffs with accompanying up tempo drumming . The song wa...
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Theresa Andrews ( born August 25 , 1962 ) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion . Raised in Maryland , Andrews gained prominence as a national collegiate champion who competed for the University of Florida . In international competition , she was a backstroke specialist who won two gold medals ...
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The Allard J2X C , or the Allard J2X as it is sometimes referred to , was a Group C sports racing car built by Allard in 1992 for use in international sports car racing events . It featured a 3 . 5 litre Cosworth unk V8 engine , capable of producing around 580 hp ( 432 . 5 kW 588 . 0 PS ) . The J2X C had bodywork t...
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East Finchley is a London Underground station in East Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet , north London . The station is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line , between Highgate and Finchley Central stations and is in Travelcard Zone 3 . The station was opened in 1867 as part of the Great Northern Railw...
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Kepler 11b is an exoplanet discovered around the star Kepler 11 by the Kepler spacecraft , a NASA led mission to discover Earth like planets . Kepler 11b is less than about three times as massive and twice as large as Earth , but it has a lower density ( 3 g cm3 ) , and is thus most likely not of Earth like com...
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The water bull , also known as tarbh uisge in Scottish Gaelic , is a mythological Scottish creature similar to the Manx tarroo ushtey . Generally regarded as a nocturnal resident of moorland lochs , it is usually more amiable than its equine counterpart the water horse , but has similar amphibious and shapeshifting abi...
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Madhouse on Castle Street is a British television play , broadcast by BBC Television on the evening of 13 January 1963 , as part of the Sunday Night Play strand . It was written by Evan Jones and directed by Philip Saville . The production featured the young American folk music singer Bob Dylan , who soon became a majo...
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Raging Bully is the sixth broadcast episode of the animated television series Phineas and Ferb . In the episode , Phineas Flynn is challenged to a thumb wrestling competition at the mall with the local bully , Buford , after he accidentally embarrasses him in the food court . Meanwhile , the evil Dr. Heinz Doofenshmi...
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Moving Mountains is a song recorded by American R B singer Usher . It was released on May 23 , 2008 , as the third single from his fifth studio album , Here I Stand . It was written by Usher with Christopher Tricky Stewart , Kuk Harrell and The Dream , and was produced by Stewart and The Dream . Moving Mountain...
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Como Duele ( English How Much It Hurts ) is a latin pop song by Guatemalan recording artist Ricardo Arjona , released on 4 November 2008 as the lead single from his eleventh studio album , 5to Piso ( 2008 ) . The song was written and produced by Arjona along with longtime collaborators Dan Warner and Lee Levin under...
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Word of God Speak is a song by Christian rock band MercyMe . Written by Bart Millard and Pete Kipley , Word of God Speak uses sparse instrumentation , featuring only piano and strings to accompany Millard 's vocals . The lyrics to Word of God Speak reflect on the idea that it is impossible to speak of an infinite...
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The Fra Mauro formation ( or Fra Mauro Highlands ) is a unk formation on the near side of Earth 's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo 14 mission in 1971 . It is named after the 80 kilometer diameter crater Fra Mauro , located within it . The formation , as well as Fra Mauro crater , take the...
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The Number 13 class battleship was a planned class of four fast battleships to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) during the 1920s . The ships never received any names , being known only as Numbers 13 16 . They were intended to reinforce Japan 's eight eight fleet of eight battleships and eight battle...
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Rowena Evelyn Webster known as Rowie ( born 27 December 1987 in Melbourne , Victoria ) is an Australian water polo centre back and a London Olympian . She has attended unk Anglican Girls ' School and Arizona State University and completed a Bachelor of Physical Education Secondary Teaching . As youngster , she played A...
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Lysurus mokusin , commonly known as the lantern stinkhorn , the small lizard 's claw , or the ribbed lizard claw , is a saprobic species of fungus in the family Phallaceae . The fruit body consists of a reddish , cylindrical fluted stipe that is capped with several arms . The arms can approach or even close in on eac...
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Glass Joe ( unk unk , unk J ) is a fictional French boxer from Nintendo 's Punch Out video game series . He first appeared in the arcade game Punch Out in 1984 and three years later in the NES game of the same name . His most recent appearance was in the Wii installment of Punch Out . He was originally design...
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Agar.io is a massively multiplayer action game created by Matheus Valadares . Players control a cell in a map representing a petri dish the goal is to gain as much mass as possible by swallowing smaller cells without being swallowed by bigger ones . The name Agar.io comes from the substance agar , used to culture bact...
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Alphonse Buddy Fletcher Jr . ( born December 19 , 1965 ) is a former hedge fund manager and founder of the Fletcher Foundation . He began his career as a quantitative equity trader at Bear Stearns and later worked at Kidder , Peabody Co . Fletcher , who is African American , sued Kidder Peabody for racial discrimina...
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So Long Self is a song written and performed by Christian rock band MercyMe . So Long Self is musically a power pop song with a lyrical theme revolving around a figurative breakup with one 's self . So Long Self was released as the lead single from the band 's 2006 album Coming Up to Breathe . So Long Self rec...
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Ross Andrew McGinnis ( June 14 , 1987 December 4 , 2006 ) was a United States Army soldier who was killed in the Iraq War and was posthumously awarded the United States ' highest decoration for bravery , the Medal of Honor . While serving as the gunner in a unk , his convoy was attacked and a hand grenade was thrown i...
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Voltaire was one of the six Danton class semi dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy in the late 1900s . Shortly after World War I began , the ship participated in the Battle of Antivari in the Adriatic Sea and helped to sink an Austro Hungarian protected cruiser . She spent most of the rest of the war blo...
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Seydlitz was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine , fourth in the Admiral Hipper class , but was never completed . The ship was laid down in December 1936 and launched in January 1939 , but the outbreak of World War II slowed her construction and fitting out work was finally stopped in the summer of 1940 wh...
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Lipstick and Dynamite The First Ladies of Wrestling ( often referred to as Lipstick and Dynamite ) is a 2004 documentary film about the early days of women 's professional wrestling in North America . It was directed by Ruth Leitman , who interviewed The Fabulous Moolah , Mae Young , Gladys Kill ' Em Gillem , Ida Ma...
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SM U 22 or U XXII was a U 20 class submarine or U boat built for and operated by the Austro Hungarian Navy ( German Kaiserliche und Knigliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K. Kriegsmarine ) during the First World War . The design for U 22 was based on submarines of the Royal Danish Navy 's Havmanden class ( three of whic...
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Mycena arcangeliana ( commonly known as the angel 's bonnet or the late season bonnet ) is a species of Mycenaceae fungus . It has been known by a number of scientific names , and its taxonomy is still somewhat disputed . It produces small mushrooms with caps varying in colour from whitish to a darker grey brown , an...
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Applewood Farm is a farmstead in Ledyard , Connecticut , United States . Constructed in 1826 by Russel Gallup , the farmhouse was built with a colonial center chimney design with Federal style details that has been modernized to the early 20th century without significantly changing the floor plan . Named after the appl...
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The 127th Boat Race took place on 4 April 1981 . 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 Ronnie Howard , it was won by Oxford who passed the finishing post eight lengths ahead of Cam...
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Passer predomesticus is a fossil passerine bird in the sparrow family Passeridae . First described in 1962 , it is known from two premaxillary ( upper jaw ) bones found in a Middle Pleistocene layer of the Oumm Qatafa cave in Palestine . The premaxillaries resemble those of the house and Spanish sparrows , but differ ...
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The 121st Boat Race between crews from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge took place on the River Thames on 29 March 1975 . Cambridge won their seventh race in eight years by three and three quarter lengths in a time of 19 minutes and 27 seconds . The race was umpired by former Oxford rower Chr...
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The 121st Boat Race between crews from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge took place on the River Thames on 29 March 1975 . Cambridge won their seventh race in eight years by three and three quarter lengths in a time of 19 minutes and 27 seconds . The race was umpired by former Oxford rower Chr...
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Make Love is a song performed by American recording artist and songwriter Keri Hilson . It was written by Jamal Polow da Don Jones , Ester Dean and Jason Perry , and produced by Polow da Don and Perry for Hilson 's debut studio album , In a Perfect World ... ( 2009 ) . The song was sent for urban adult contemporary...
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Lise Trhot ( 14 March 1848 12 March 1922 ) was a French art model who posed for artist Pierre Auguste Renoir from 1866 until 1872 , during his early Salon period . She appeared in more than twenty paintings , including notable works such as Lise ( 1867 ) and In Summer ( 1868 ) , and she was the model for almost all o...
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Express is a song recorded by American singer Christina Aguilera for the accompanying soundtrack album to her film Burlesque ( 2010 ) . Written by Aguilera , C. Tricky Stewart and Claude Kelly and was produced by Stewart , Express is an uptempo electropop number . The track premiered on November 3 , 2010 on On Ai...
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FBI Special Agent Emma Hollis is a fictional character from the American crime thriller television series Millennium . Hollis , introduced in the series ' third and final season , is a young special agent within the Federal Bureau of Investigation . During the show 's final year , she was partnered with offender profi...
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New York State Route 31E ( NY 31E ) is a 5 . 29 mile ( 8 . 51 km ) state highway located in western New York in the United States . It serves as a northerly alternate route of NY 31 between the village of Middleport in eastern Niagara County and the nearby village of Medina in Orleans County . NY 31E connects to NY 31...
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Spongiforma squarepantsii is a species of fungus in the Boletaceae family , genus Spongiforma . Found in Malaysia , it was described as new to science in 2011 . It produces sponge like , rubbery orange fruit bodies that have a fruity or musky odour . The fruit bodies reach dimensions of 10 cm ( 3 . 9 in ) wide by 7 cm...
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Mary Wayte unk ( born March 25 , 1965 ) , ne Mary Alice Wayte , is an American former competition swimmer , two time Olympic gold medalist , and television sports commentator . During her international swimming career , Wayte won eight medals in major international championships , including four golds . Early year...
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SMS Ariadne was the fifth member of the ten ship Gazelle class of light cruisers , built by the Imperial German Navy . She was built by the Imperial Dockyard in Danzig , laid down in 1899 , launched in August 1900 , and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in May 1901 . Armed with a main battery of ten 10 . 5 cm ( 4 ...
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Reflektor is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire . It was released on September 9 , 2013 , as the first single from the band 's fourth studio album , Reflektor ( 2013 ) . Produced by James Murphy , Markus Dravs and the band itself , the song features a guest vocal appearance by David Bowie and was released...
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Commander Henry Alexander Stuart Menteth DSC , usually shortened to Alex Stuart Menteth ( 26 August 1912 14 May 2000 ) was a British naval officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy , particularly during World War II where he assisted in the sinking of two U boats and helped capture Enigma code fragments whi...
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Interstate 270 ( I 270 ) is a 7 mile long ( 11 km ) highway in the northeastern part of the Denver Aurora Metropolitan Area in the U.S. state of Colorado . It overlaps U.S. Highway 36 ( US 36 ) for its entire length . The western terminus of I 270 is at the interchange with I 25 and US 36 . It heads eastward to a...
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Digimon Racing ( unk , unk unk ) is a racing video game developed by Griptonite Games and published by Bandai ( now Namco Bandai Games ) for the Game Boy Advance . Part of the Digimon media franchise and video game series , it utilizes Digimon 's characters and elements . Its gameplay largely resembles that of traditio...
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Jason Jones ( born June 1 , 1971 ) is a video game developer and programmer who co founded the video game studio Bungie with Alex Seropian in 1991 . Jones began programming on Apple computers in high school , assembling a multiplayer game called Minotaur The Labyrinths of Crete . While attending the University of Chi...
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The Windsor Locks , Connecticut tornado struck the towns of Windsor , Windsor Locks , and Suffield , Connecticut and Feeding Hills , Massachusetts on October 3 , 1979 . The short lived but intense tornado struck without warning and caused three deaths and 500 injuries . The storm , rated F4 on the Fujita scale , also...
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Good Hit is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez for her seventh studio album Love ( 2011 ) . It is an up tempo dance and R B song , written and produced by Terius The Dream Nash and C. Tricky Stewart . After the song leaked online in August 2010 , it was announced to be Lopez 's first singl...
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Bjamunjo unk ( also known in Old Norse as unk and in Gaelic as Ben unk , B Binn , unk , and unk fl . 1102 1103 ) was a daughter of a Muirchertach Ua Briain , High King of Ireland . In 1102 whilst still a child , she was married to Sigurr , son of Magns lfsson , King of Norway . At this time , Magns appears to have b...
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Bart After Dark is the fifth episode of The Simpsons ' eighth season . It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 24 , 1996 . After accidentally breaking a stone gargoyle at a local house , Bart is forced to work there as punishment . He assumes it will be boring work , but is pleasantly surpr...
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Mycena clariviolacea is a mushroom in the Mycenaceae family . First reported as a new species in 2007 , it is known only from Kanagawa , Japan , where it fruits on dead fallen twigs in forests dominated by oak and chinquapin trees . Distinctive features of this species are found in its medium sized , dark violet fruit...
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Eliurus petteri is a rodent in the genus Eliurus found in lowland eastern Madagascar . First described in 1994 , it is most closely related to the smaller Eliurus grandidieri . Virtually nothing is known of its natural history , except that it occurs in rainforest and is nocturnal and solitary . It is threatened by des...
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Take a Bow is a song recorded by British singer Leona Lewis for her debut studio album Spirit ( 2007 ) . It was written by Jordon Omley , Michael Mani , Wayne Wilkins , Louis Biancaniello and Ryan Tedder . Tedder explained that he wanted to create an edgy song for Lewis so that it would not be boring or predictable ....
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Tropical Storm Norman was a weak tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall to southwestern Mexico in October 2006 . The twelfth named storm of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season , Norman developed on October 9 from a tropical wave well to the southwest of Mexico . Unfavorable conditions quickly encountered the system...
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A Caesar or Bloody Caesar is a cocktail created and primarily consumed in Canada . It typically contains vodka , Clamato ( a proprietary blend of tomato juice and clam broth ) , hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce , and is served with ice in a large , celery salt rimmed glass , typically garnished with a stalk of celer...
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West Hendford Cricket Ground was a first class cricket ground located in Yeovil , Somerset . The land for the ground was first leased by Yeovil Cricket Club in 1874 , and was also used for a range of other sports , most significantly hosting Yeovil Rugby Club in the 1890s , and then again from 1935 until the ground wa...
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Hurricane Flossy originated from a tropical disturbance in the eastern Pacific Ocean and moved across Central America into the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical depression on September 21 , 1956 , which became a tropical storm on September 22 and a hurricane on September 23 . The hurricane peaked with maximum sustained wind...
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The 2007 Groundhog Day tornado outbreak was a localized but devastating tornado event that took place in central Florida early on February 2 , 2007 . Early morning temperatures had risen well above average for the season combined with increased moisture and a powerful jet stream , this created enough instability and w...
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Pearson 's Candy Company is an American chocolate and confectionery manufacturer headquartered in Saint Paul , Minnesota . Founded as a confectionery distribution firm in 1909 , the company began to manufacture its own products in 1912 . Originally a family owned company , Pearson 's experienced changes in ownership ,...
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K 'inich Yo 'nal Ahk I ( Mayan pronunciation unk unk unk ) , also known as Ruler 1 , was an ajaw of Piedras Negras , an ancient Maya settlement in Guatemala . He ruled during the Late Classic Period , from 603 639 AD . It has been proposed that he began a new dynasty at Piedras Negras , following years of ineffecti...
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Kawachi ( unk ) was the lead ship of the two ship Kawachi class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) in the first decade of the 20th century . Following the Japanese ship naming conventions , Kawachi was named after Kawachi Province , now a part of Osaka prefecture . During World War ...
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The Wignacourt Arch known as the Fleur De Lys Gate ( Maltese L unk ta ' Wignacourt unk unk l Bieb ta ' Fleur De Lys ) is an ornamental arch located on the boundary between Fleur de Lys ( a suburb of Birkirkara ) and Santa Venera , Malta . The arch was originally built in 1615 as part of the Wignacourt Aqueduct...
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The 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane was an unusual Pacific tropical cyclone that attained hurricane status farther north than any other Pacific hurricane . It was officially unnamed , with the cargo ship unk providing vital meteorological data in assessing the storm . The twelfth tropical cyclone of the 1975 Pacific h...
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LOL Smiley Face ( styled as LOL ) ) is a song by American recording artist Trey Songz . It features rappers Gucci Mane and Soulja Boy Tellem . The three co wrote the song with producers Troy Taylor and Tony Scales . The song serves as the second single from Songz ' third studio album , Ready . LOL Smiley Face ...