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| Autistic Disorder |
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Autism |
Autism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism involves many parts of the...
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| Achilles |
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In Greek mythology, Achilles (Ancient Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.
Achilles also has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against...
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| Abraham Lincoln |
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Honest Abe |
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil...
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| Abraham Lincoln | ||||
| Academy Awards |
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Oscar |
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
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| Ang Lee |
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Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; Pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger,...
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| Ayn Rand |
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Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum |
Ayn Rand (pronounced /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for...
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| Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum | ||||
| Allan Dwan |
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Joseph Aloysius Dwan |
Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.
Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his family moved to the United States when he was 11...
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| Animation |
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Animated |
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and...
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| Alaska |
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Last Frontier |
Alaska ( /əˈlæskə/ (help·info)) is the largest state of the United States of America by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to...
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| Apollo 11 |
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The Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, the third lunar mission of NASA's Apollo Program was crewed by Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin...
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| Astronaut |
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cosmonaut |
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels...
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| Andrei Tarkovsky |
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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky |
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский) (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.
Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris, The Mirror,...
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| Alberta |
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Wild Rose Country |
Alberta (pronounced /ælˈbɜrtə/) is the most populous and fastest growing of Canada's three prairie provinces. It is approximately the same size as Texas or France and had a population of 3.7 million in 2009. It became a province on September 1, 1905...
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| Province Of Alberta | ||||
| Antarctica |
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Antarctic |
Antarctica (pronounced /ænˈtɑrktɪkə/ ( listen), is Earth's southernmost continent, underlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the...
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| Art |
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Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture,...
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| Abortion |
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Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced, in humans...
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| Alan Alda |
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Alfonso Joseph D'Abruzzo |
Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent...
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| American football |
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football |
American football, known in the United States simply as football and often as gridiron or tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score...
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| American Revolutionary War |
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The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also sometimes known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies in North America, and concluded in a global war...
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| Anime |
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Anime (アニメ, an abbreviated pronunciation in Japanese of "animation", pronounced [anime] ( listen) in Japanese, but typically /ˈænəˌmeɪ/ (help·info) or /ˈænəˌmə/ in English) is animation originating in Japan. The world outside Japan regards anime...
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| Apocalypse Now |
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate...
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| Amsterdam |
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Mokum |
Amsterdam (pronounced /ˈæmstərdæm/; Dutch [ɑmstərˈdɑm] (help·info)) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The city, which had a population (including suburbs) of 1...
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| venice of the north | ||||
| American Civil War |
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The American Civil War (1861–1865), also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the...
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| Andy Warhol |
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Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a...
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| American Film Institute |
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The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act....
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| Akira Kurosawa |
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黒澤明 |
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 or 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira, 23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. In a career that spanned 50 years, Kurosawa directed 30 films. He is widely regarded as one of the most...
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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Arthur Charles Clarke |
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley...
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| Charles Willis | ||||
| E. G. O'Brien | ||||
| Sir Arthur Charles Clarke | ||||
| Arthur Clark | ||||
| Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and...
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| Arthur Conan-Doyle | ||||
| A. A. Milne |
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A.A. Milne |
Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright,...
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| Alan Alexander Milne | ||||
| A. Milne | ||||
| Albert Speer |
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Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, pronounced [ˈʃpɛɐ]; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf...
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| Ada Lovelace |
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Ada Byron |
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron. She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace.
She is...
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| The Right Honourable Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace | ||||
| Augusta Ada King | ||||
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| Albert Camus |
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Albert Camus (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy]) (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the...
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| Agatha Christie |
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller |
Dame Agatha Christie DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her...
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| Mary Westmacott | ||||
| Christie Agatha | ||||
| Arches National Park |
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Arches National Park is a U.S. National Park in eastern Utah. It is known for preserving over 2000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.
The park...
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| Miss Marple |
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Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels. Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who acts as an amateur detective, and lives in the village of St. Mary Mead. She is...
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| Auto racing |
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Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or car racing) is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports.
Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful petrol-fueled automobiles....
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| Aristophanes |
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Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης, ca. 446 – ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments...
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| André Gide |
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Andre Gide |
André Paul Guillaume Gide (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]) (22 November 1869—19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement,...
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| André Gide | ||||
| Anti-Semitism |
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Antisemitism |
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, or religion. While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is...
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| Anne Rice |
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A. N. Roquelaure |
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and religious-themed books from New Orleans, Louisiana. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death from cancer in...
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| Anne Rampling | ||||
| Howard Allen O'Brien | ||||
| Anne O'Brien Rice | ||||
| Artificial intelligence |
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Machine Intelligence |
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents," where an intelligent agent is a system that...
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| Afterlife |
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The afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the hereafter) is the idea that the consciousness or mind of a being continues after physical death occurs. In many popular views, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual or...
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| Athena |
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In Greek mythology, Athena (also called Athene and Pallas Athene, Attic: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnâ or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaía, Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaíē, Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athḗnē, Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athána; Latin: Minerva) is the goddess of wisdom, war, strategy, industry,...
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| Alternate history |
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Allohistory |
Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of literary fiction, though it often uses the tropes of science fiction and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. It is...
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Athens, Greece |
Athens (pronounced /ˈæθənz/; Greek: Αθήνα, Athina, IPA: [aˈθina]), the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years.
The Greek capital has a...
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| Ashoka |
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Dharma Ashoka, Ashoka the Terrible |
Ashoka (Devanāgarī: अशोकः, IAST: Aśokaḥ, IPA: [aˈɕoːkə(h)], 304 BC – 232 BC), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from 269 BC to 232 BC. One of India's...
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| Asoka | ||||
| Alfonso Arau |
Alfonso Arau (born January 11, 1932) is a Mexican actor and director.
Arau was born in Mexico City, the son of a doctor. He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate (adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura...
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| Alfonso Cuarón |
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Alfonso Cuaron |
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (Spanish pronunciation: [alfonso kwaˈɾon]) (born 28 November 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. Some of his works include Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of...
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| Antimatter |
In particle physics, antimatter is the extension of the concept of the antiparticle to matter, where antimatter is composed of antiparticles in the same way that normal matter is composed of particles. For example, an antielectron (a positron, an...
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| Dodo |
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The Dodo |
The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The Dodo is a caricature of the author. A popular but unsubstantiated belief is that Dodgson...
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| Agamemnon |
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In Greek mythology, Agamemnon ("very resolute") / (ancient Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων) is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope; the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of...
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| Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (English pronunciation: /soʊlʒəˈniːtsɨn/ Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]) (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008) was a Soviet and Russian novelist,...
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| Andaman Islands |
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The Andaman Islands (Hindi: अण्डमान द्वीप समूह, pronounced [əɳɖəˈmɑːn ˈdʋiːp səˈmuːɦ] Tamil: அந்தமான் தீவுகள்) are a group of archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. The...
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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Arnold Alois Schwartzenegger |
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the 38th and current governor of the US State of California. He is also known as a famous Bodybuilder, actor and businessman. Born in Thal Austria to Aurelia Jardny and Gustav Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger had a...
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| Alan Cox |
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Alan Cox (born July 22, 1968 in Solihull, England) is a British computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days in 1991. He lives in Swansea, Wales with his wife, Telsa Gwynne.
While employed on the...
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| Andromeda |
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Andromeda was a princess from Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster. She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband. Her name is the Latinized form of the...
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| Aslan |
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Aslan, the "Great Lion", is the central character in The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. He is the eponymous lion of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and his role in Narnia is...
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| Austin |
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Austin, Texas |
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 15th-largest in the United States. It was the...
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| Auschwitz concentration camp |
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Auschwitz-Birkenau ( Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (help·info)) was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps, operational during World War II.
The camp took its German name from the hosting town of Oświęcim....
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| Acropolis of Athens |
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The Acropolis |
The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis (Gr. akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city, pl. acropoleis) in the world. Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is...
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