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Moolaadé
Moolaadé is a 2004 African film by Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène. It addresses the subject of female circumcision, a common practice in most African countries. The film argues strongly against the practice, depicting a village woman, Colle, who uses moolaadé (magical protection) to protect a group of girls. She i...
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El laberinto
El Laberinto (Spanish for "The Labyrinth") is a 1974 novel by Manuel Mujica Laínez. It purports to tell the story of "Ginés de Silva", the boy shown holding a torch in the lower left-hand corner of El Greco's 1586 painting The Burial of Count Orgaz. This picaresque Bildungsroman presents, with virtuosic gusto, a ...
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Rhamphinion
Rhamphinion (meaning "beak nape"; "beak" is a common part of rhamphorhynchoid names, and the remains of this animal came from the rear of the skull, i.e. "nape") was a genus of pterosaur from the Sinemurian-mid Pliensbachian-age Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona, USA. It is based on MNA V 4500, a...
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Tony Steel
Anthony Gordon (Tony) Steel (31 July 1941 - ) is a former New Zealand rugby player, politician and educator. He was born in Greymouth, and played rugby first for his school, Christchurch Boys' High School, and then for Canterbury before finally playing for the All Blacks between 1966 and 1968. After retiring from s...
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Site of Nature Conservation Interest
'Site of Nature Conservation Interest' - in Kent can be defined as a locally significant nature conservation site identified by the Kent Trust for Nature Conservation. Selection of Sites of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI) is objective and is normally based upon a recent survey specifically designed for SNCI, bu...
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Heiderscheid
Heiderscheid (Luxembourgish: Heischent) is a commune and small town in north-western Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Wiltz, which is part of the district of Diekirch. The commune's administrative centre is Eschdorf. As of 2005, the town of Heiderscheid, which lies in the centre of the commune, has a populat...
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Margaret Smith
Margaret Smith may refer to: Margaret Smith Court (born 1942), tennis player; Margaret Chase Smith (1897 1995), United States Senator from Maine; Margaret Smith (Scottish politician) (born 1961), Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh West; Margaret Smith (poet), American poet and ar...
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Christopher
Christopher is a common English name derived from the Ancient Greek name (Khristoferos). The name is frequently translated as "Bearer of Christ", although a more literal translation would be "Bearer of the anointed one." The constituent parts are (Khristos) which means literally The Anointed One a...
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Partition function (quantum field theory)
In quantum field theory, we have a generating functional, Z of correlation functions and this value, called the partition function is usually expressed by something like the following functional integral: ; where S is the action functional. This is very analogous to statistical mechanics. In fact, a Wick rotatio...
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Michael Rose
Born in Kingston, Jamaica on July 11, 1957, Michael Rose was fortunate enough to be introduced to music as a teenager by his older brother Joseph. Blessed with an outstanding voice, Michael Rose would regularly meet in Kingston with singers, musicians, writers, and producers such as Dennis Brown, Big Youth, The Wailers...
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C'Est Peut-Être Pas L'Amérique
C'Est Peut-Être Pas L'Amérique (English translation: "It May Not Be America") was the Luxembourgish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981, performed in French by Jean-Claude Pascal. The song is in praise of Europe and its lifestyle, with Pascal singing that "America isn't everything" and explaining that he prefe...
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Samuel Starkweather
Samuel Starkweather (December 27, 1799 July 5, 1876) was mayor of Cleveland from 1844 1845 and served a second term from 1857 1858. Starkweather was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to Oliver and Miriam (Clay) Starkweather. He graduated from Brown College in 1822, tutored there until 1824, and then left to study law...
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Jose F. Valdez
Private First Class Jose F. Valdez (January 3, 1925-February 17, 1945) was a United States Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor the United States' highest military decoration for his actions near Rosenkrantz, France during World War II. Early years. Valdez was a Mexican-American born in...
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Lakai Footwear
Lakai was established in 1993 by Mike Carroll and Rick Howard. They wanted to make products the team would be proud of and kept an atmosphere that was supportive and motivating. While it was a risk, they felt like they owed it to skateboarding and skateboarders to take that risk. In 1999, facing a similar situation ...
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Poppin Ya Collar
"Poppin' ya collar" (also "pop ya collar"), is a phrase generally used in the hip hop lexicon. It describes not only an action, but also a general attitude. The term was originally used in this sense by the rapper E-40. When used by E-40, and many other hip hop artists including Three 6 Mafia in their song Poppin My...
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Taylor Parkes
Taylor Parkes is a British journalist, born in 1972. He is best known for his music journalism which appeared in Melody Maker from 1993 to 1998, notable for a style which mixed dark humour, especially in bitterly critical pieces, with an intellectual tone, influenced by the likes of Simon Reynolds and Paul Morley. He ...
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Vahid Talebloo
Vahid Talebloo (Persian: , born 26 May, 1982 in Tehran) is an Iranian football goalkeeper, who currently plays for Esteghlal FC in Iran's Premier Football League. Club career. Talebloo was very impressive in Esteghlal's goal even though he was competing with another national team goalie, Mehdi Rahmati....
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Shinminato, Toyama
Shinminato ( ; -shi) was a city located in Toyama, Japan. As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 37,094 and the density of 1,146.29 persons per km². The total area is 32.36 km². The city was founded on 15th March, 1951. The city merged on the 1st November, 2005 with Imizu District to form the ne...
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An Electric Storm
An Electric Storm is the debut album by UK Rock group White Noise. Track listing. "Love Without Sound" 2:57 (Derbyshire/Vorhaus); "My Game Of Loving" 3:38 (Duncan/Vorhaus); "Here Come The Fleas" 2:31 (McDonald/Vorhaus); "Firebird" 2:43 (Derbyshire/Vorhaus); "Your Hidden Dreams" 4:25 (McDonald/Vo...
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Too Careful (EP)
Too Careful EP is the second release by the Australian Rock band End of Fashion. The songs Too Careful and Love Comes In were later re-recorded for End of Fashions debut album simply titled End of Fashion. Track listing. "Too Careful"; "You And Only You"; "Love Comes In"; "Counting Your Friends"; Note. The v...
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Rollo Armstrong
Rollo Armstrong (born in London) is a part of the music producers/remixers team Rollo and Sister Bliss and older brother to Dido, whom he helped to write and produce the multi-million selling albums No Angel and Life For Rent. He is also a member of the electronic music group Faithless, which he formed in 1995 with S...
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The A-Team (film)
The A-Team is a 2008 American film adaptation of the 1980s TV series of The A-Team written and produced by Stephen J. Cannell, the TV series executive producer and co-written by Bruce Feirstein, whose previous works include the scripts of the James Bond movies GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World Is Not Enough...
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Hull-down
In modern armoured warfare, hull-down is a position taken up by an armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) such that its hull (the main part of the vehicle) is behind a crest or other raised ground, but its turret (or a superstructure or roof-mounted weapon) is exposed. This allows it to observe and fire upon the ground ahead...
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Wilhelmstraße
The Wilhelmstraße is a street in Berlin, the capital of Germany. Between the mid 19th century and 1945 it was the administrative centre first of the Kingdom of Prussia and then of the unified German state, housing in particular the Reich Chancellery and the Foreign Office. For this reason the term "the Wilhelmstraße" w...
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Liberal religion
Liberal religion is a religious tradition which embraces the theological diversity of a congregation rather than respecting any single creed, authority, or writing. Because it may draw resources from many traditions, it cannot normally be characterized as Christian, Jewish, or any particular religious faith. Theologia...
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City College of San Francisco
City College of San Francisco, or CCSF, is a two-year community college in San Francisco, California. The Ocean Avenue campus, in the Ingleside neighborhood, is the college's primary locale. Visiting guests, faculty, and students can enjoy a panoramic view from the beach to downtown and across the bay. City College of ...
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Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain." It was founded in 1820 by George IV, with the aim to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent." The Society has an annual magazine, RSL, and administers a number of literary prizes and awards, including the Ondaatje Prize, the...
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Unknown Pleasures
Unknown Pleasures is the first album by Joy Division, released in 1979. It was produced by Martin Hannett and recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. The front cover image comes from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, and was originally drawn with black lines on a white background. ...
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Henry Foley
For the homonymous New Zealand cricket player, see Harry Foley; Brother Henry Foley was an English Roman Catholic church historian. Biography. He was born at Astley in Worcestershire, England on 9 August 1811; died at Manresa House, Roehampton, 19 November 1891. His father was the Protestant curate in charge at As...
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Maundy money
Maundy Money is a special British coinage given to deserving poor people in a religious ceremony performed by Anglicans on Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter. History of the Maundy ceremony . The present-day Maundy ceremony has evolved over the centuries and bears little relationship to the original rite...
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Everway
Everway is a fantasy role-playing game first published by Wizards of the Coast under their Alter Ego brand in the mid-1990s. Its lead designer was Jonathan Tweet. Marketed as a "Visionary Roleplaying Game", it has often characterized as an innovative piece with a limited commercial success. Wizards later abandoned the...
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Calciphylaxis
Calciphylaxis is a syndrome of vascular calcification and skin necrosis. It is seen almost exclusively in patients with end stage renal disease. It results in chronic non-healing wounds and requires parathyroidectomy and hyperbaric therapy. CALCIPHLAXIS is a rare but serious disease. What is it?. Calciphylax...
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Zuras
Zuras is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a member of the Eternals. Fictional character biography. Zuras is the son of the Eternals Kronos and Daina, and brother of A'Lars. With his wife Cybele, he has a daughter Thena. Zuras was the first Eternal to form a Uni-Mind, and was...
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Hethumids
The Hethumids were the rulers of Armenia from 1226 to 1373. Hethum I, the first of the Hethumids, came to power when he married Queen Isabella of Armenia who had inherited the throne from her father. Hethum (or Hetoum) I (1226-1270); Leo III (1270-1289) - son of Hethum I; Hethum II (1289-1293) - son of Leo III;...
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Ocular Digital
Ocular Digital is a live concert DVD released by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet in 2003. The "Flevo 2001" tracks were recorded live at the Flevo Festival in Eindhoven, Holland on August 17, 2001. The "Escodino 1991" tracks were recorded live at the Kit Carson Amphitheater in Escondido, California on June...
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Harvey Ward
Harvey Grenville Ward (1927 1995) was born in Southern Rhodesia to an English father and a German mother. His parents went as European settlers in Africa and were engaged in enterprises such as the financing of railroad construction and the building of numerous hotels. His parents owned and the family resided in the V...
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Plantet
Plantet is a red wine grape that is a hybrid grape created by French hybridist Albert Seibel. The grape is grown primarily in the Loire Valley around Anjou and is known for the high yields that the vine can produce. The vine is generally reliable and disease resistant, producing well even after suffering through a spri...
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Michele Cavataio
Michele Cavataio (died December 10, 1969, Palermo), also known as The Cobra was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of the Acquasanta mandamento in Palermo and was a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission. Early Mafia career. Cavataio was seen as an exponent of a new Mafia of Americani...
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Check washing
Check washing is the process of erasing checks, enabling the rewriting thereof, usually for criminal purposes such as fraudulent withdrawal from the victim's bank account. Various steps can be taken by the writer of the check to reduce the possibility of falling victim to check washing. These include mailing checks...
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Monastery of Horezu
The Monastery of Horezu was founded in 1690 by Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu in the town of Horezu, Wallachia, Romania. It is considered to be a masterpiece of "Brâncovean" style, known for its architectural purity and balance, the richness of its sculpted detail, its treatment of religious compositions, its votive por...
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Lever escapement
The lever escapement is a key component of the typical movement found in most mechanical wristwatches, pocket watches and many small mechanical non-pendulum clocks. The invention of the lever escapement is attributed to Thomas Mudge, and its modern form was developed by subsequent workers including Breguet and Masse...
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Riang Kotang
Riang Kotang fumarole field is located near the eastern tip of Flores island, Indonesia. Two fumarole areas are found along the saddle foot of the volcano. Hot springs appear along the southwest side of the Oka Bay and Hadang Bay on the west coast. See also . List of volcanoes in Indonesia; References .
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AFB Bloemspruit
AFB Bloemspruit is an airbase of the South African Air Force. It is co-located with Bloemfontein Airport, and shares its runways. The base motto is Ex Unite Pax, (Peace Through Unity). Units Hosted . 16 Squadron - Attack helicopter squadron; 87 Helicopter Flying School - Helicopter training squadron; 106...
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Turkish Daily News
The Turkish Daily News is a Turkish daily. It was established in March 1961 and is considered Turkey's first and largest English-language daily. It is part of the Do an Media Group (DYH), owner of Hürriyet, and Milliyet - two mass circulation Turkish newspapers. DYH also owns many other interests in the media secto...
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Laurel House Railroad Station
The Laurel House Station, branch MP 18.5, was built as part of the three-foot gauge Kaaterskill Railroad, an extension of the Stony Clove and Catskill Mountain Railroad. It was built so passengers could stop there and take a horse and carriage to the Laurel House, a hotel that was nearby. When it was built, it was anyt...
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Nice
Nice (; Niçard Occitan: Niça norm or Nissa, Italian: Nizza, Greek: ) is a city in southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Marseille and Genoa, with 933,080 inhabitants in the metropolitan area at the 1999 census. The city is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera (Côt...
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Fallin'
"Fallin'" is the first single from R&B/soul musician Alicia Keys's debut album, Songs in A Minor. Released to radio and music video outlets in April 2001, the song is her debut single and is also generally considered her signature song. "Fallin'" became Keys' first number one single in the United States, and her first ...
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Rotherhithe (UK Parliament constituency)
Rotherhithe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rotherhithe district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished...
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Chemotype
A chemotype (sometimes chemovar) is a chemically distinct entity in a plant or microorganism, with differences in the composition of the secondary metabolites. Minor genetic and epigenetic changes with little or no effect on morphology may produce large changes in the chemical phenotype. A good example of a plant w...
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Royalty!
"Royalty!" is a song from the 1974 musical film, Huckleberry Finn based on the book by Mark Twain. It was sung by Harvey Korman as "The King" (of France, no less) and David Wayne as The Duke (of Bilgwater). The song is one of the comedic highlights of the film. In the course of the song, the King and the Duke attemp...
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Yakov Rekhter
Dr. Yakov Rekhter joined Juniper Networks in Dec 2000, where he is a Juniper Fellow. Prior to joining Juniper, Yakov worked at Cisco Systems, where he was a Cisco Fellow. Prior to joining Cisco in 1995, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Yakov Rekhter was one of the leading architects and a major software...
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Project SHAMROCK
Project SHAMROCK, considered to be the sister project for Project MINARET, was an espionage exercise that involved the accumulation of all telegraphic data entering into or exiting from the United States. The Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA) and its successor NSA were given direct access to daily microfilm copies of...
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Rengoku 2
Rengoku 2 is a fantasy action adventure game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Konami for Sony's PlayStation Portable. It was recently revealed on May 9, 2006 at the E3 convention . Story In the game, the player controls A.D.A.M., a battle android, as he fights his way up a tower with eight floors, the firs...
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Peter Oundjian
Peter Oundjian (born 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a violinist and conductor, the youngest of five children from an Armenian father and English mother. He was educated in England, where he began studying the violin at age seven with Manoug Parikian. He then attended the Royal College of Music. He went to New Yor...
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Lee Aronsohn
Lee Aronsohn (born December 15, 1952) is a television writer and producer. He has written for some very successful sitcoms, such as The Love Boat, Who's the Boss?, Murphy Brown, Grace Under Fire and Cybill. In 2003, he co-created the sitcom Two and a Half Men and wrote original music for the series. Besides writi...
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Nikolay Kamenskiy
Nikolay Kamenskiy (born October 17, 1931). is a former Soviet ski jumper who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won a silver medal in the individual large hill at the 1962 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane. Kamenskiy also finished fourth in the individual large hill competition at the 1960 W...
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The Legend of Mir 3
The Legend of Mir 3 (Korean: 3) is a sprite based isometric 3-D massively multiplayer online role-playing game, developed by Wemade Entertainment. It is a sequel to the massively multiplayer game The Legend of Mir 2. The game remains largely unchanged from the previous version, with the exception of the graph...
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The Spirit of Christmas 1998
The Spirit of Christmas 1998 is part of the Spirit of Christmas album series. It was released in Australia on November, 1998. Some tracks on this album have been released before in previous Spirit of Christmas albums, Track listing. Carol of the Drum - Christine Anu *; Last Christmas - Human Nature; Silent Night...
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Nephilengys cruentata
Nephilengys cruentata is a nephilid spider with a strikingly red sternum. Females reach a length of about 24 millimeters. The legs can be uniformly dark red or brown, or annulated. Males are about 4mm long. Distribution. N. cruentata is found in tropical and subtropical Africa and several limited areas of South ...
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Darlene Fairley
Darlene Cook Fairley (b 1943) is a Washington State Senator representing the 32nd District. She now chairs the Financial Institutions, Housing, and Consumer Protection committee. She is running for her 4th term as a State Senator. Fairley became Lake Forest Park councilmember in January 1992 and was first electe...
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Mazhar Khan
This article is about the Pakistani cricketeer Mazhar Khan. For the Bollywood actor see Mazhar Khan (actor). Mazhar Khan (born September 11, 1964 in Rawalpindi) is an Pakistan-born Omani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. He has made several appearances as a batsman in the 2005 ...
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1991 in NASCAR Busch Series
The 1991 NASCAR Busch Series Season began February 16 and ended on October 27. Bobby Labonte of Labonte Motorsports won the championship. Goody's 300 . The Goody's 300 was held February 16 at Daytona International Speedway. David Green won the pole. Top Ten Results Dale Earnhardt; Michael Waltrip;...
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Henry Singer Keating
Sir Henry Singer Keating (1804-1888) was a British lawyer. He became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1832, and a Queen's Counsel in 1849. He served in government as Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1857-8 and in 1859. He sat as a Judge of Common Pleas from 1859-75.
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Main St. Markham (VIVA)
Main St. Markham is a proposed Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It will open roughly in July 1, 2007 at the intersection of Main Street Markham and Highway 7 in Markham, Ontario. It will be on the Viva Purple and Viva Green lines. Note that this will be bui...
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The Young Master
The Young Master is a 1980 martial arts film that stars Jackie Chan as Dragon. The film is notable for being the first that Jackie Chan worked on for Golden Harvest, and despite being his second film as director (his first was Fearless Hyena), this is often credited as his directorial debut. It was co-written by Cha...
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Konstantin Raudive
Dr. Konstantin Raudive (1906-1974), a student of Carl Jung, was a psychologist who taught at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He was preoccupied with parapsychological interests all his life (especially with the possibility of life after death), and he kept in close contact with leading British psychical researcher...
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Tommy Mandel
Tommy Mandel (born New York City) is a keyboardist who is most famous for playing with Bryan Adams, from 1981 to 1998, starting with Bryan Adams's album You Want It You Got It. He's also played with Dire Straits and others. Discography. With Bryan Adams. You Want It You Got It; Cuts Like a Knife; Reckless; I...
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Crescente Errázuriz
Monsignor Crescente Errázuriz Valdivieso (November 18, 1839 - July 5, 1931) was a Chilean Dominican friar, Roman Catholic archbishop of Santiago, professor, writer and historian. Life. He was born in Santiago, Chile the sixth child of Francisco Javier de Errázuriz y Aldunate and of his second wife, Rosario Fernánde...
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Mih?ileni
Mih ileni may refer to several places in Romania: Mih ileni, a commune in Boto ani County; Mih ileni, a commune in Harghita County; Mih ileni, a commune in Sibiu County; Mih ileni, a village in imone ti Commune, Harghita County; Mih ileni, a village in Buce Commune, Hunedoara County; and several places ...
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David Rendall
David Rendall (born April 22, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a young Canadian actor with frequent recurring roles as Ted on Radio Free Roscoe and Vern on Dark Oracle. He has also guest starred in episodes of Department S and 1-800-MISSING. He has also won the Toronto Sprockets Film Festival Jump Cuts award two...
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Great Br?ila Island
The Great Br ila Island (Insula Mare a Br ilei, formerly Balta Mare a Br ilei, the "Great Br ila Pond") is an island on the Danube river in the Br ila County, Romania. It has on average 60 km length and 20 km width. The two river branches which separate it from the mainland are M cin and Cremenea. Currently, 681.3 k...
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Banksia 'Lemon Glow'
Banksia 'Lemon Glow', also known by its extended cultivar name Banksia spinulosa var. cunninghamii 'Lemon Glow', is a form of Banksia spinulosa var. cunninghamii with lemon-yellow flowers. It was selected by Alf Salkin from a wild population on French Island, Victoria, and registered as a cultivar on 5 October 1982. ...
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Miami Twice (part one)
Miami Twice was a two-part Christmas special addition of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. The first episode, sub-titled The American Dream, was first screened on 24 December 1991. Synopsis. A few months after his birth, Damien Derek Trotter, son of Del Boy and Raquel, is christened in a church, much to Rod...
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Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
The Tri-Institutional MD-PhD, or Tri-I, program is an innovative biomedical partnership between the Weill Cornell Medical College (WMC), The Rockefeller University(RU) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). Located in the Upper East Side of New York City, the Tri-I campus is led by Harold Varmus (President...
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Texas Red
For the professional wrestler, see Mark Calaway; For the food, see chili con carne. Texas Red (TR) is a red fluorescent dye, with a molecular weight of 625 daltons, used in histology for staining cell specimens. Texas Red is a sulfonyl chloride derivate of sulforhodamine 101. It is used for fluorescent-activated c...
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Yuho Iwasato
Iwasato Yuho (believed to be born in 1957, Niigata prefecture origin) is a popular writer of anime theme songs. She is also known by another pen name of Iwasato Mio. In addition, she has written lyrics for some Japanese singers including Maaya Sakamoto, Miki Imai and many others. She is known to be a close frien...
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Code 13
Code 13 is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based hardcore band formed by ex-members of the defunct band Destroy. In the words of member and Havoc Records founder Felix Havoc: After Destroy broke up I hooked up with Tattoo Shane and Trevor Trend and began jamming with a series of drummers. We put up an ad at Extreme Noi...
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137th Battalion, CEF
The 137th Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Calgary, Alberta, the unit began recruiting in late 1915 in that city. After sailing to England in August 1916, the battalion was absorbed into the 21st Reserve Battalion on January 10, 1917. The 137th Battal...
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Monarch of the Solomon Islands
| | |} The Head of State of the Solomon Islands is Queen Elizabeth II. The Solomon Islands share the Sovereign with a number of Commonwealth realms. The Queen's constitutional roles have been almost entirely delegated to the Governor-General of the Solomon Islands. Royal succession is governed by the English Act o...
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Achille Occhetto
Achille Occhetto (born 3 March 1936), nicknamed Akel, is an Italian political figure. Biography. Occhetto was born in Turin. He served as the secretary-general of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) between 1988 and 1994 (which became the Democratic Party of the Left halfway through his term in 1991, also known as t...
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Cronstedtite
Cronstedtite is a complex iron silicate mineral belonging to the serpentine group of minerals. It has a formula of Fe2+2Fe3+(Si,Fe3+O5)(OH)4. It was discovered in 1821 and named in honor of Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722-1765). It has been found in Bohemia in the Czech Republic and in Cornwall, E...
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Grape-Nuts
Grape-Nuts is a breakfast cereal developed by C. W. Post in 1897. Post was a patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Neither grapes nor nuts have ever been ingredients in the cereal. The original formula for Grape-Nuts called for grape sugar, which is compose...
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Addressee
In linguistics, an addressee is an intended direct recipient of the speaker's communication. A listener is either an addressee or a bystander. Second-person pronouns refer to an addressee or a group including an addressee. An inclusive first-person pronoun refers to a group including both the speaker and the addre...
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Rete testis
Rete testis is an anastomosing network of delicate tubules located in the hilum of the testicle (mediastinum testis) that carries sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the vasa efferentia. Rete tubular ectasia is a disorder of the rete testis in which many benign cysts are present. In the area of the rete testis...
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Alhamazad the Wise
In the Dungeons and Dragons World of Greyhawk campaign setting, Alhamazad the Wise is a powerful human wizard of Baklunish descent, and is one of the newest members of the Circle of Eight. References. Brown, Anne. Player's Guide To Greyhawk (TSR, 1998). Mona, Erik, and Gary Holian. "Wheels within Wheels: Greyhaw...
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Jaka's Story
Jaka's Story is a graphic novel written and drawn by Dave Sim, with background art by Gerhard. The fifth book in the Cerebus the Aardvark series, it is regarded by many as the series' highpoint and a classic of the medium, thanks to its subtle characterisation, expert pacing and innovative use of the comic-book medium...
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Arlington Memorial Bridge
Arlington Memorial Bridge connects Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, with the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. across the Potomac River. The eastern end of the bridge marks the western edge of the National Mall. The bridge's construction was authorized by Congress on February 24, 1925 and forma...
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California State Route 125
State Route 125 currently runs from State Route 54 in San Diego to State Route 52 in Santee, USA. Currently, construction is underway to extend Route 125 from Route 54 south to State Route 905 and State Route 11 in Otay Mesa near the U.S. Mexico border. This portion, scheduled to open in 2007, will be a toll road ca...
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Adventure into Fear
Adventure into Fear, originally titled simply Fear, is an American horror comic book published by Marvel Comics from November 1970 through December 1975, for 31 issues. The first nine issues of Fear reprinted science fiction/fantasy and monster stories from the late-1950s and early 1960s "pre-superhero Marvel" comic...
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Malcolm Wynn-Jones
Malcolm Wynn-Jones is the fictional MI5 analyst, featured in the British Television Series Spooks, also known as MI5 in the United States. Malcolm has been played by Hugh Simon since the start of Spooks in 2002. Malcolm started out at the very beginning, as an analyst. In the script for one of his first episodes, he...
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Let's Go to Bed (The Cure song)
Let's Go to Bed is the name of a 1982 single by The Cure. It later appeared on their compilation album Japanese Whispers. In the aftermath of the bleak Pornography, Robert Smith returned from a month-long detox in the Lake District to write the antithesis to what the Cure currently represented. Written as a sarcasti...
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Peter Garland
Peter Garland (born January 27, 1952 in Portland, Maine) is a composer best known for publishing Soundings Press, one of the few sources of new music scores and articles while in print. A student of James Tenney and Harold Budd, much of Garland's work could be considered post-minimal, and he is also an expert on Ameri...
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Siege of Kastania
The Siege of Kastania was fought in 1780 between the Maniots and the klephts under Kostantinos Kolokotronis and Panagiotaros Venetsakis and the Ottoman Empire under Ali Bey. Prelude. The Orlov Revolt had been a disaster for the Greeks that revolted against the Ottomans and the Maniots who were the only free Gree...
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Mathieu Demy
Mathieu Demy is a French actor, born October 15, 1972 in Paris. He is the son of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy. Filmography . 1993 : À la belle étoile with Julie Gayet, Chiara Mastroianni; 1997 : Jeanne et le garçon formidable with Virginie Ledoyen; 1999 : Banqueroute with Antoine Chappey; 2000 : La chambre obs...
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'night, Mother
For the film based on the play, see 'night, Mother (film).; 'night, Mother is a 1983 play by Marsha Norman about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma (referred to as "Mama" in the play). The play opens with Jessie calmly telling Mama that by morning she'll be dead, as she plans to commit suicide that very eveni...
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Piledriver (band)
This article is about a former band, for other uses see Pile driver (disambiguation); Piledriver was a Canadian power/thrash metal band, founded in 1985 by Gord Kirchin. They were known for an over-the-top image and flamboyant song titles/lyrics ("Sex With Satan", "Alien Rape", "Sodomize the Dead", "Witch Hunt", "Huma...
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Discectomy
A discectomy is a surgical procedure in which an extravasated segment of the intervertebral disc, which is causing pain by stressing the spinal cord or radiating nerves, is dissected. A laminectomy is often involved to permit access to the intervertebral disc. See also. Back pain; Hernia; Anterior cervical disce...
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1750 in literature
See also: 1749 in literature, other events of 1750, 1751 in literature, list of years in literature. Events. Tobias Smollett travels in France, collecting material for Peregrine Pickle. Weekly meetings for contributors to the Encyclopédie begin, at the salon of Baron d'Holbach. The Rambler is founded by Edward...
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Viapoint
Viapoint is an information organizer for Windows Desktops. It lets you organize email, files, web content, and RSS feeds through one simple interface that looks a lot like Microsoft Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer). Unlike the Windows Explorer, where every item can only exist in one place, Viapoint lets you put...
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Clinton Avenue School
Clinton Avenue School is a bilingual (American English and Spanish) school located at 293 Clinton Avenue in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven, CT, USA. It was built in 1911 and underwent extensive renovations beginning in 2004. The original design was similar to the nearby Truman School, both Beaux Arts style ...