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Oleg Balan
Oleg Balan (born 27 November 1969 in Cîrpești) is a Moldovan jurist, politician, and university teacher, who served as Minister of Internal Affairs of Moldova between 18 February 2015 and 20 January 2016.
From December 2014 until 18 February 2015 Oleg Balan was a Member of Parliament of Moldova, before bei... | {
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R.O.E.
Roosevelt Sledge, Jr. (born December 21, 1987), better known by his stage name R.O.E., is an American rapper from Chicago, Illinois. He first gained popularity after the release of his debut EP, A Backpacker Named R.O.E.. In 2011, his single "I Won" was featured on many hip hop blogs and independent radio stati... | {
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Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
Jim Wilson (October 21, 1872 – February 8, 1956) was a pioneer banker and businessman of the San Fernando Valley who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1933 to 1941.
Biography
Wilson was born on October 21, 1872, in Butler, Ohio, the son of John W. Wilson and Harriet Andrews, both of B... | {
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Sheldon Thomas
Sheldon Thomas (born December 8, 1972) is a former Trinidadian soccer player who played for LA Galaxy.
He also played for South China Athletic Club and Orange County Waves, and was capped three times for Trinidad & Tobago.
Club career
Early career
Thomas attended El Camino College and St. Benedict's... | {
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Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is a 2000 American biographical sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. The screenplay, written by Gregory Allen Howard, is based on the true story of African-American coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate ... | {
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Le nabab
Le nabab is a three-act opéra comique by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Eugène Scribe.
The title refers to a Nawab or Indian notable. The opera was the last collaboration of Scribe and Halévy, which began in 1835 with La Juive, Halévy's greatest success. It premiered in Paris on 1 September 1853.
The op... | {
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Fontel Mines
Fontel Mines (born February 26, 1985) is a wide receivers coach for East Carolina and a former American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Virginia.
Early years
Mines attended Hermi... | {
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Mlesna
Mlesna Tea is a tea company owned by Euro-Scan Exports based in Sri Lanka. The company produces a range of loose teas, tea bags and gifts including: black tea, green tea, flavoured teas, and herbal teas.
History
The company was established by Anselm Perera in 1983. Perera was initially employed as a tea taste... | {
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List of equipment of the Argentine Army
Equipment of the Argentine Army lists weapons and other materiel currently in service with the Argentine Army. Totals for each item are estimated as per sources cited.
Tanks
Armored vehicles
Utility vehicles
Artillery
Air defence systems
Small arms
Anti-tank weapons
Infa... | {
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Vatra (Slovak magazine)
Vatra was a Slovak language magazine published monthly after the Second World War by Slovak emigrants in Great Britain between 1948 and 1952. Originally the paper of Slovak Youth in Great Britain, Vatra brought its readers as much news from the home country as it could gather, as well as announ... | {
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Sérgio Godinho
Sérgio Godinho, OL () is a Portuguese poet, composer, and singer. He was born on August 31, 1945 in Porto, Portugal, and is one of the most influential popular musicians in Portugal. He's often considered the greatest name of Portuguese popular music, after Zeca Afonso, even if their music styles are qu... | {
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List of international goals scored by Edin Džeko
Edin Džeko, a Bosnian association footballer, made his debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a 3–2 win over Turkey on 2 June 2007. He also scored his first international goal in the match to level the scores at 2–2 in stoppage time of the first half. As of 18 November 201... | {
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Giovanni Maria Bernardoni
Giovanni Maria Bernardoni (1541–1605) was a Jesuit and an Italian architect who was the first to design the Baroque style in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Early life
Giovanni Maria Bernardoni was born in northern Italy in the commune of Cagno in 1541. He worked as a mason until he... | {
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On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People ({{zh|s=) is a 1957 essay by the Chinese Communist revolutionary Mao Zedong published during the Eleventh Session of the Supreme State Conference. This essays explores the concepts developed by Mao in ... | {
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Dylann Roof
Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015 in the U.S. state of South Carolina. During a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all Afric... | {
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Actual cash value
In the property and casualty insurance industry, Actual Cash Value (ACV) is a method of valuing insured property, or the value computed by that method.
Actual Cash Value (ACV) is not equal to replacement cost value (RCV).
ACV is computed by subtracting depreciation from replacement cost. The deprec... | {
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MinX
MinX was a very short-lived British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group. The channel was launched on 8 October 2007 and was replaced by NME TV on 22 November 2007 at 6.00am.
MinX broadcast 24 hours a day on Sky Digital Channel 377; however, it only showed 8 hours of music videos in ful... | {
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Entomodestes
Entomodestes is a small genus of birds in the thrush family. They are found in humid Andean highland forest in South America. The two species both have black underparts and head, and a white patch on the lower face, but differ in the colour of the back.
Species
White-eared solitaire, Entomodestes leuco... | {
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Ram Sharma
Ram Sharma (1837–1918) was a nineteenth-century Indo-Anglian poet who alternately criticized and praised the government in his poems and newspaper articles. He began his literary career in the 1860s but pursued steady writing only after his retirement from a government post in 1878. He practiced Yoga for 40... | {
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General Diamond Workers' Association of Belgium
The General Diamond Workers' Association of Belgium (, ADB; ) was a trade union representing workers in the diamond trade in Belgium.
The union was founded on 19 August 1895, as the Antwerp Diamond Workers' Association. It rapidly became one of the leading trade unions... | {
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Henry Klein
Henry Klein (October 4, 1841 – December 5, 1901) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Sayler's Creek.
Born in Germany, Klein immigrated to the United States in 1853. He settled... | {
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Michael Dulin
Michael Dulin is an American pianist and composer. In addition to performing his original music, Dulin has appeared both solo and with orchestra in performances of classical music. He has also toured as keyboardist with the Motown group, the Temptations.
Four of Dulin's albums The One I Waited For, Atm... | {
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Heather Robinson
Heather Robinson Ross (born July 31, 1978) is an American screenwriter, film producer and author.
Early life
Robinson was raised in Littleton, Colorado, and graduated from Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Arizona, in 1996. She became the youngest employee at American Cablevision, moving up the crew ran... | {
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Anjathe Sridhar
P.S. Sridhar (known as Anjathe Sridhar) is an Indian film actor and film director who works in Tamil films. He is known for his villainous act in highly successful Anjathe directed by Mysskin. He was also the villain in Natarajan Subramaniam's Milaga as well as in 6 Melugu Vathigal.
Ananda Vikatan app... | {
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Uptown Top Ranking
"Uptown Top Ranking" is a song and single by the Jamaican teenage singers Althea Forrest and Donna Reid, recorded when they were 17 and 18 years old respectively.
Released in 1977, the song comprises the girls ad-libbing to deejay track "Three Piece Suit" by Trinity. The song was initially recorded... | {
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The Enterprise of Law
The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State is a 1990 book by Bruce L. Benson, in which he challenges readers' assumptions about the nature of the legal justice system. Benson uses "economic theory to compare institutions and incentives that influence public policy and private performance i... | {
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Swordfish (clipper)
Swordfish was an 1851 clipper ship which has been called William H. Webb’s masterpiece. She is known for her record-breaking race to San Francisco with the clipper Flying Fish.
“On her first passage out to San Francisco a race was arranged for large stakes between her and the Flying-fish, a Boston... | {
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Fluoroform
Fluoroform is the chemical compound with the formula CHF3. It is one of the "haloforms", a class of compounds with the formula CHX3 (X = halogen) with C3v symmetry. Fluoroform is used in diverse applications in organic synthesis. It is not an ozone depleter but is a greenhouse gas.
Synthesis
About 20M ... | {
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James Ivory (watchmaker)
James Ivory (1729 – 1793) was a Scottish watchmaker, clockmaker, and engraver. He was briefly followed by his son Thomas Ivory.
Biography
James Ivory was a very prominent watchmaker and clockmaker in Dundee, Scotland during the mid-to-late 18th century. Born in Liberton, near Edinburgh in 172... | {
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Battle of Domažlice
The Battle of Domažlice () or Battle of Taus () or Battle of Tausch was fought on 14 August 1431 as the part of the 5th crusade against Hussites. The crusade was sent to Bohemia after negotiations, held in Pressburg and Cheb, between Hussites and the emperor Sigismund had failed.
Outcome
The Imp... | {
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Ardmore, Alabama
Ardmore is a town in Limestone County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Metro Area. It is home to the Saturn IB rocket at the Alabama Welcome Center, just south of the Tennessee border, on Interstate 65. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town is 1,194. It bo... | {
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2014 GFA Premier Division
In the 2014 season the GFA Premier Division, the top football league in Grenada, was won by the ASOMS Paradise team.
Table
1.Paradise 18 14 1 3 49-15 43 Champions
2.Carib Hurricane 18 9 6 3 25-19 33
3.GBSS 18 9 2... | {
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Chubukaran
Chubukaran () is a rural locality (a village) in Slakbashevsky Selsoviet, Belebeyevsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2010.
References
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Margaret Joachim
Dr Margaret Jane Joachim (born 25 June 1949) is a British former Liberal Party and current Liberal Democrat politician who was Chair of the Women's Liberal Democrats.
Background
Joachim was daughter of Reginald and Joyce Margaret Carpenter. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School, St Hugh's... | {
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Peter August Poppe
Peter August Poppe (17 August 1870 – 13 February 1933) was a Norwegian-born engineer, designer and developer of engines and complete motor vehicles for the British motor industry. He was a co-founder of the engine manufacturer White and Poppe.
Biography
Poppe was born at Skogn in Nord-Trøndelag, No... | {
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Popular Music from Vittula
Popular Music from Vittula () is a novel by Mikael Niemi. It was published in Sweden in 2000, the English translation by Laurie Thompson followed in 2003. A film based on the book was released in 2004.
The book won the 2000 August Prize.
References
Category:2000 Swedish novels
Category:Au... | {
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39th Grey Cup
The 39th Grey Cup was the Canadian Football League's championship game of the 1951 season, played on November 24, 1951.
The Ottawa Rough Riders defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders 21 to 14 at Toronto's Varsity Stadium before a crowd of 27,341 fans in the first Grey Cup match-up between the two similar... | {
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Frank Pope
Frank Pope (born 13 May 1973) is the Chief Executive Officer for Save the Elephants (STE). After studying zoology at the University of Edinburgh he began his career in marine science before joining The Times newspaper as the world's only Ocean Correspondent (between 2008 and 2011) to cover the fast-changing... | {
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Jandakot
Jandakot is a locality in south-west Western Australia in the southern part of the Perth metropolitan area. It may refer to:
Jandakot, Western Australia
Jandakot Airport
Jandakot Mound
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Patrick Vieira
Patrick Vieira (born 23 June 1976) is a French professional football head coach and former player. He is the manager of Nice.
Considered one of the best players of his generation, Vieira began his career at Cannes in 1994, where several standout performances in his debut season garnered him a move to S... | {
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Hugh Sempill
"Hugh Sempill" is also the name of several Lords Sempill.
Hugh Sempill (or Semple) (in Latin, Hugo Simpelius or Sempilius) (between 1589 and 1596 – 1654) was a Scottish Jesuit mathematician and linguist. He describes himself in his work as Hugo Sempilius Craigbaitaeus, probably making him the Hew Sempil... | {
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Moyer v. Peabody
Moyer v. Peabody, 212 U.S. 78 (1909), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the governor and officers of a state National Guard, acting in good faith and under authority of law, may imprison without probable cause a citizen of the United States in a time of insurrection and ... | {
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Talon-Talon
Talon-Talon is a barangay located to the southeast of Zamboanga City in the Philippines. 30% of the land is used for farming, 10% is salt bed and the remaining 60% is residential. The coastal area is surrounded with seaweed and fishponds farming.
History
For a long time, the place where Talon-Talon is had... | {
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Samantha Baines
Samantha Louise Baines (born 1987 in Southwark, London) is an English actress and comedian. She is best known for her appearances in Magic Mike Live London, The Crown (Netflix), Lee Nelson's Well Funny People (BBC3), Hank Zipzer (CBBC) and A Royal Night Out .
Early life
Baines grew up in Bromley, whe... | {
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Barry Enright
Barry Ryan Enright (born March 30, 1986) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Enright attended St. Mary's High School in Stockton, California and Pepperdine University. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He played for T... | {
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Edificio Kronos
The Edificio Kronos (English: Kronos Building) is a residential building at Playa de Levante, Benidorm, Spain. At a height of 140 metres (476 feet) and 41 floors it overlooks the surrounding buildings and has views over Benidorm's bays and mountains.
External links
Official website
Category:Buildin... | {
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So Blue (De Sylva, Brown and Henderson song)
"So Blue" is a 1927 song written by Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson. The song has been covered by numerous artists.
Versions
Vera Lynn
Peggy Lee, on Dream Street (Peggy Lee album)
John Warren's Strictempo Orchestra 1959,
The Cambridge Strings,
Phil Tate And ... | {
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House of Unitarians, Copenhagen
The House of Unitarians in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the chapel of the Danish Unitarian Church Society. It was designed by Carl Brummer and opened in 1927 on Østerbrogade, now Dag Hammerskjolds Allé. Brummer was asked to design a building which reflected the Unitarian ideals of tolerance ... | {
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Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary
Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary is located in Ballari district in Karnataka. It is spread over . The sanctuary was created exclusively for the preservation of the sloth bear. It is about 50 km from Ballari and about 15 km from the World Heritage Site Hampi. The area between Daroji in Sandur t... | {
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Centenariosuchus
Centenariosuchus is an extinct genus of caimanine crocodylian known from the Miocene of the Panama Canal Zone of Panama. It contains a single species, Centenariosuchus gilmorei, that was named in 2013 in honor of the upcoming centennial anniversary of the digging of the Panama Canal. Two fossil specim... | {
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Nick McCabe
Nicholas John McCabe (born 14 July 1971) is an English musician best known as the lead guitarist of The Verve.
Early life
McCabe is the son of a bus driver father and a social worker mother and has two older brothers, Alan and Paul. When asked what it was that inspired him to become a guitarist, he answer... | {
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Wilhelm Biener
Wilhelm Biener (Bienner) (1590 – 17 July 1651) was a lawyer, and chancellor of Tyrol.
Born in Lauchheim in what is now Baden-Württemberg, he was employed by Margrave Karl von Burgau from 1620 onwards. After having served under the Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian I from 1625 to 1630, he was appointed by ... | {
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The Waltz You Saved for Me
"The Waltz You Saved for Me" is a popular song written in 1930 by Wayne King and Emil Flindt with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song soon became associated as the theme song of Wayne King and His Orchestra.
Notable artists who have recorded the song include: Al Bowlly (1931), Bert Ambrose (193... | {
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Absolute magnitude
Absolute magnitude () is a measure of the luminosity of a celestial object, on an inverse logarithmic astronomical magnitude scale. An object's absolute magnitude is defined to be equal to the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were viewed from a distance of exactly , without extinc... | {
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Onderweg naar Morgen
Onderweg naar Morgen is a Dutch television soap opera based on Ryan's Hope. The series was aired by Veronica between 1994 and 2001, including co-broadcasting with TROS in 1994 and 1995. When Veronica announced that it would leave the join venture with Holland Media Groep, RTL was forced to rebrand... | {
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Battlefield Germany
Battlefield Germany is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services for the Commodore 64 released in April 1987. It was also ported to the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum later that year. It is the eighth instalment to the Strategic Wargames series. The game is... | {
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Clinton, California
Clinton (formerly, Sarahville, Sarahsville, and Lincoln) is a small town in Amador County, California. It is located south of Pine Grove, at an elevation of 1972 feet (601 m). Clinton was the center of a placer mining community during the 1850s and of quartz mining as late as the 1880s. This town... | {
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Bob Montgomery (boxer)
Bob Montgomery (February 10, 1919 – August 25, 1998) was an American lightweight boxer who took the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) World Lightweight Championship in May 1943, and again in March 1944. His managers included Frankie Thomas, and Joe Gramby.
Early life and career
Montgom... | {
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50th World Science Fiction Convention
The 50th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as MagiCon, was held September 3–7, 1992, at the Clarion Hotel, The Peabody Orlando, and the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, United States.
The chairman was Joe Siclari; Becky Thomson was vice-... | {
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Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, (1980), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of California that first recognized that a "direct victim" of negligence can recover damages for emotional distress without an accompanying physical injury.
Factual background
A doctor employe... | {
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Jean Redcliffe-Maud
Margaret Jean Redcliffe-Maud, Baroness Redcliffe-Maud (née Hamilton; 1904 – 6 November 1993) was a British pianist.
Jean Hamilton was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She married John Maud, later to become Lord Redcliffe-Maud, on 20 June 1932 in Oxford. On 1 July of that year, they sailed f... | {
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Futani
Futani is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Geography
The town lies in southern Cilento, on the national road "SS 18" between Cuccaro Vetere and Massicelle. It borders with the municipalities of Ceraso, Cuccaro Vetere, Montano Antilia, Novi Velia and Sa... | {
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Gappy Ranks
Jacob Lee Williams (born c.1983), better known as Gappy Ranks, is an English dancehall musician of Jamaican and Dominican descent, from Harlesden, London.
Career
Born in Harlesden to a Jamaican father and Dominican mother, he dealt with numerous problems; including homelessness after leaving school. Once ... | {
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Bayan Productions
Bayan Productions, Inc. is a co-production of ABS-CBN, responsible for the public affairs programme “Magandang Gabi, Bayan”.
At the helm of Bayan Productions is Arlene de Castro, who is also ABS-CBN’s former Vice President for Current Affairs.
Shows
Previous Show
Trip na Trip - A travel show focus... | {
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C. J. Sapong
Charles "CJ" Nana Kwabena Sapong (; born December 27, 1988) is an American soccer player who currently plays as a forward for Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer.
Playing career
College
Sapong played college soccer at James Madison University, where he ended his career with 37 goals and 21 assists in fo... | {
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Hite Crossing Bridge
The Hite Crossing Bridge is an arch bridge that carries Utah State Route 95 across the Colorado River northwest of Blanding, Utah, United States. The bridge informally marks the upstream limit of Lake Powell and the end of Cataract Canyon of the Colorado River, but when the lake is at normal wat... | {
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Savlaj
Savlaj (also Savalaj) is a village in Tasgaon tehsil in Sangli district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is named after the village god Lord Savalsiddh or Savalsiddha.
Savlaj has a grampanchayat with 17 members and is a major village within Sangli zilla parishad and constituency.
Geography
Savlaj is loc... | {
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No. 309 "Czerwien" Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron
REDIRECT No. 309 Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron | {
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Skomarje
Skomarje () is a settlement in the Pohorje Hills northwest of Zreče in northeastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the Municipality of Zreče in the Savinja Statistical Region.
History
Until 1994, Skomarje was part of a larger settlement together with ... | {
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Doomsday Book (novel)
Doomsday Book is a 1992 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards. The title of the book refers to the Domesday Book of 1086; Kivrin Engle, the main character, says that her recording is "a record o... | {
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Chake-Chake Bay
Chake-Chake Bay is a large indentation in the central west coast of Pemba Island, one of the two main islands of Tanzania's Zanzibar Archipelago.
Geography
The town of Chake-Chake, one of the island's main population centres, is located in the central coast of the bay.
The bay is not particularly wi... | {
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Philippine swamphen
Philippine swamphen (Porphyrio pulverulentus Temminck, 1826) is a species of swamphen occurring in The Philippines. It used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen, which it resembles, but has olive-chestnut mantle and scapulars, and the whole plumage is tinged with ash-grey.
Referenc... | {
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Cait MacPhee
Catherine Elizabeth "Cait" MacPhee is Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Edinburgh. After studying for her BSc in biochemistry and her PhD in medicine at the University of Melbourne she moved to the University of Oxford for postdoctoral research, where she was a research fellow at St H... | {
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Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year
The Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year was presented as recognition each year for the best contemporary jazz album in Canada. It was first presented in 1994, after the Juno Awards split the former award for Best Jazz Album into separate categories for ... | {
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Stephen Fleet
Stephen George Fleet (September 28, 1936 – May 18, 2006) was a Master of Downing College, Cambridge, the Cambridge University Registrary and a researcher in mineral sciences and crystallography.
Stephen Fleet was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, Lewes County Grammar School, Sussex and St John's Col... | {
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Rayshawn Jenkins
Rayshawn Jenkins (born January 25, 1994) is an American football safety for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Miami. He was drafted by the Chargers in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
Professional career
On December 5, 2016, it was an... | {
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Common collector
In electronics, a common collector amplifier (also known as an emitter follower) is one of three basic single-stage bipolar junction transistor (BJT) amplifier topologies, typically used as a voltage buffer.
In this circuit the base terminal of the transistor serves as the input, the emitter is the ... | {
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Johann Georg Steigerthal
Johann Georg Steigerthal (2 February 1666, Nienburg - 27 June 1740, Hanover) was a court physician and medical writer.
Life
Steigerthal was one of the sons of Johann Georg Steigerthal senior, a city-preacher and later superintendent of Nienburg, and his wife Catharina Ursula Wessling. He stu... | {
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Rómulo Díaz de la Vega
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega (23 May 1800 — 3 October 1877) was de facto president of Mexico in 1855. He studied military science and rose to the rank of general.
In 1821, he joined the Plan of Iguala. He fought in the Texas War of Independence and for that he was appointed lieutenant. He fought in 1... | {
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Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswati
'Ganga Jamuna Saraswati' (Hindi: गंगा जमुना सरस्वती) is 1988 Hindi film directed by Manmohan Desai, financed by Harakh Chand Nahata, produced by S. Ramanathan and starring Amitabh Bachchan as Ganga, Meenakshi Sheshadri as Jamuna, and Jaya Prada as Saraswati. Other cast includes Mithun Chakrab... | {
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Boby Lapointe
Robert Jean-François Joseph Pascal Lapointe (; 16 April 1922 – 29 June 1972), better known by his stage name Boby Lapointe (), was a French actor and singer, noted for his humorous texts, alliterations and plays on words.
Biography
Lapointe was born in Pézenas, in the Hérault département of southern Fra... | {
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C. K. Vineeth
Chekiyot Kizhakkeveettill Vineeth (born 20 May 1988), commonly known as C. K. Vineeth, is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Jamshedpur in the Indian Super League.
Personal life
Born in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, he studied in S. N. College, Kannur. He was the f... | {
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Arun River, China–Nepal
The Arun River () is a trans-boundary river and is part of the Kosi or Sapt Koshi river system in Nepal. It originates in Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China where it is called the Phung Chu or Bum-chu.
Name
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Ronald Harvey (administrator)
Ronald George "Ron" Harvey, (born 9 June 1934) is a former senior Australian public servant and sport administrator. He was the third Director of the Australian Institute of Sport, serving in the role from 1987 until 1989.
Early life
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Li'l Abner (musical)
Li'l Abner is a musical with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Based on the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad spoof of hillbillies, but it is also a pointed satire on other topics, ranging from Americ... | {
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Gay Trip
Gay Trip was a racehorse noted for winning the 1970 Grand National.
Gay Trip was a small bay gelding owned by Tony Chambers and trained by Fred Rimell. Formerly a flat racing horse, Gay Trip was switched to National Hunt racing as a five-year-old and won the Mackeson Gold Cup in 1969. In the 1970 Grand Natio... | {
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Conference on Disarmament
The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a multilateral disarmament forum established by the international community to negotiate arms control and disarmament agreements based at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Conference meets annually in three separate sessions in Geneva.
History
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Babs
Babs or BABS may refer to:
People
nickname of Barbara Windsor (born 1937), British actress
Babs McMillan, Australian actress
Babs Olusanmokun, American actor
Babs Reingold, American artist
Babs Fafunwa (1923-2010), Nigerian educationist, scholar and Minister for Education, full name Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa
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List of Pennsylvania railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Common freight carriers
Aliquippa and Ohio River Railroad (AOR)
Allegheny Valley Railroad (AVR)
Allentown & Auburn Railroad (ALLN)
BD Highspire Holdings (BDHH)
Belvidere and Delaware River Railway (BDRV)
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Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art
The Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art (TZCVA) is an artist cooperative located in the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1993, TZCVA was established to create an artist-owned and managed building that provides stable, safe, and ... | {
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (later titled Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of O... | {
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Neryungrinsky coal mine
The Neryungrinsky Coal Mine is a coal mine located in eastern Russia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 197 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 10 million tonnes of coal.
References
Categor... | {
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ALCO RSC-3
The ALCO RSC-3 was a diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type rated at , that rode on three-axle trucks, having an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement.
Used in much the same manner as its four-axle counterpart, the ALCO RS-3, though the axle load was spread out for operation on light rail such as are fou... | {
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Annapurna Labs
Annapurna Labs is an Israel-based microelectronics company that was acquired by Amazon.com for its Amazon Web Services division, reputedly for US$350–370M in January 2015.
Annapurna Labs, named after an Himalayan peak Annapurna Massif, was co-founded by Bilik (Billy) Hrvoye, a Bosnian Jewish refugee, a... | {
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Speculatores
Speculatores and Exploratores were the scouts and reconnaissance element of the Roman army.
In both the legions and in the praetorian camp, speculatores were initially scouts but became bodyguards, couriers, law-enforcers, and sometimes executioners. Exploratores were tasked to keep watch on enemy movemen... | {
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Samadov
Samadov (Azerbaijani: Səmədov, Russian: Самадов) is an Asian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Samadova. It may refer to
Abdujalil Samadov (1949–2004), prime minister of Tajikistan
Alibay Samadov (born 1982), Russian-born Azerbaijani weightlifter
Ibragim Samadov (born 1968), Soviet weightlifter
J... | {
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Margareta Stafhell
Margareta Stafhell, also called Staffhell, Stafell and Staffhell-Åkerman, (1720–1762), was a Swedish Chalcography artist.
Biography
Margareta Stafhell was the daughter of the silversmith Gustaf Stafhell (1683-1761) and Catharina Olofsdotter Beckman. She was the sister of silversmiths Gustaf Andre... | {
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Laxton, Nottinghamshire
Laxton is a small village in the civil parish of Laxton and Moorhouse in the English county of Nottinghamshire, situated about 25 miles northeast of Nottingham city centre. The population of the civil parish (including Ompton and Ossington) at the 2011 Census was 489.
Laxton is best known for ... | {
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Orobanche minor
Orobanche minor, the hellroot, common broomrape, lesser broomrape, small broomrape or clover broomrape, is a holoparasitic flowering plant belonging to the genus Orobanche; a genus of about 150 non-photosynthetic plants that parasitize other autotrophic plants.
Characteristics and growth requirements
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Nikolai Shakura
Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (Николай Иванович Шакура; born October 7, 1945 in Belarus SSR) is a Russian astrophysicist. He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University. As a well-known specialist in the theory of accretion disks, as we... | {
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