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| x United States Constitution |
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USS Constitution |
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1787, and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of ...
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| x Martin Luther King, Sr. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Martin Luther King, Sr., born Michael King (December 19, 1899 – November 11, 1984) was a Baptist missionary, an advocate for equal justice an early civil rights leader, and a prominent influence on the music of the 1960s. He was also the father of...
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| x Martin Luther |
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Martin Luther King, Sr. |
Martin Luther (help·info) (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German monk, priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be...
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| x Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site |
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States...
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| Martin Luther King Bridge | |||
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| x Florence |
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Florence Nightingale |
Florence (Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] ( listen), alternate obsolete form: Fiorenza; Latin: Florentia) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately...
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| Percy Florence Shelley | |||
| x Florence Nightingale |
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Florence Nightingale Museum |
Florence Nightingale OM, RRC ( /ˈflɒrəns ˈnaɪtɨŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to...
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| USS Florence Nightingale | |||
| Florence Nightingale David | |||
| Florence Nightingale Effect | |||
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| x Amelia Bloomer |
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Bloomers |
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her...
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| x James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan |
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Cardigan |
Lieutenant General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, KCB (16 October 1797 – 28 March 1868), was an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. He led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle...
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| x Roald Dahl |
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Roald Dahl Plass |
Roald Dahl ( /ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl/, Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl dɑl]; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the British Royal Air...
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| Roald Dahl Children's Gallery | |||
| Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre | |||
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| x Roald Amundsen |
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Roald Dahl |
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈɾuːɑl ˈɑmʉnsən]; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition (1910-12) to discover the South Pole in December 1911 and he...
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| Amundsen Sea | |||
| Amundsen Glacier | |||
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| x Kirrily Nolan | Alex Bayley | ||
| x T'Pau | T'Pau |
T'Pau is a Vulcan who appears in the original Star Trek and Star Trek: Enterprise. Celia Lovsky played the character in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Amok Time", while Kara Zediker portrayed T'Pau in the 2004 Enterprise episodes "Awakening" and "Kir...
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| x Linus Torvalds |
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GNU/Linux |
Linus Benedict Torvalds (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈliːn.ɵs ˈtuːr.valds] ( listen); born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source...
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| x They Might Be Giants | They Might Be Giants |
They Might Be Giants is a 1971 film based on the play of the same name (both written by James Goldman) starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward. Occasionally cited mistakenly as a Broadway play, it never in fact opened in the USA. It was...
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| x Alexander the Great |
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Alexandria |
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, Aléxandros ho Mégas from the Greek αλέξω alexo "to defend, help" + ανήρ aner "man"), was a king of Macedon, a state in...
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| Iskandariya | |||
| Alexandria Asiana | |||
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| x Julius Caesar |
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July |
Gaius Julius Caesar (Classical Latin: [ˈɡaː.i.ʊs ˈjuː.lɪ.ʊs ˈkaj.sar], July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman...
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| x Durand Durand | Duran Duran | ||
| x Thor |
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Thursday |
In Norse mythology, Thor (from Old Norse Þórr) is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing, healing, and fertility. The cognate deity in wider Germanic...
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| x Romulus and Remus |
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Rome |
Romulus and Remus are twin brothers in Rome's foundation myth. Their grandfather Numitor was king of Alba Longa, and a descendant of the Trojan prince Aeneas. Their mother was Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia (also known as Ilia). Before their...
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| French ship Romulus | |||
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| x Doug Anthony | Doug Anthony All Stars |
John Douglas Anthony, AC, CH (born 31 December 1929), is a former Australian politician. He was leader of the National Party from 1971 to 1984, and Deputy Prime Minister from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1975 to 1983.
Anthony was born in Murwillumbah...
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| x Cirith Ungol |
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Cirith Ungol |
Cirith Ungol (pronounced [ˈkiriθ ˈuŋɡɔl]) is a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth in his fantasy work The Lord of the Rings. The name is Sindarin for Spider's Cleft, or Pass of the Spider, presumably referring to the...
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| x Monty Python | Python |
Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) was a British surreal comedy group who created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four...
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| x Matmos | Matmos |
Matmos is a seething lake of evil slime beneath the city Sogo, in the film Barbarella.
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| x Johann Kinau | Gorch Fock | ||
| x The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground |
The Velvet Underground is a paperback by journalist Michael Leigh that reports on paraphilia in the USA, published in September, 1963.
Cover text: Here is an incredible book. It will shock and amaze you. But as a documentary on the sexual corruption...
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| x Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl | Xiu Xiu |
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Chinese: 天浴; pinyin: Tiān Yù) is a 1998 Chinese film directed by actress Joan Chen based during the 1970s in People's Republic of China, during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by...
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| x Parable of the Pearl |
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Perl |
The Parable of the Pearl (also called the Pearl of Great Price) is a parable of Jesus of Nazareth. It appears in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. According to Matthew 13:45-46 the parable illustrates the great value of the...
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| x Mos Eisley | Eisley |
Mos Eisley is a setting in the fictional Star Wars universe. It is introduced as a spaceport on the planet Tatooine. In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) describes Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and...
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| x Orodruin |
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Amon Amarth |
Mount Doom is a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. It is located in the heart of the black land of Mordor and close to Barad-dûr, it is approximately 15,553 ft (4,741 m) high. Alternative names, in Tolkien's invented language of...
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| x Ephel Dúath | Ephel Duath |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, the Ephel Dúath or Mountains of Shadow are a range of mountains that guard Mordor's western and southern borders. Their Sindarin name means literally "outer fences of dark shadow". They meet the...
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| x Narnia |
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Narnia |
Narnia is a fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as the primary location for his series of seven fantasy novels for children, The Chronicles of Narnia. The world is so called after the country of Narnia, in which much of the action of the Chronicles...
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| x Gorgoroth | Gorgoroth |
Gorgoroth, also called the Plateau of Gorgoroth, is a place in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. It is a plateau in north-western Mordor in the midst of which stands the volcanic Mount Doom. To the northeast of Mount Doom upon a...
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| x Eudora Welty |
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Eudora |
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,...
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| x H. P. Lovecraft | H. P. Lovecraft |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's guiding aesthetic and philosophical...
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| x The Gods of Bal-Sagoth | Bal-Sagoth | ||
| x Jethro Tull |
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Jethro Tull |
Jethro Tull (30 March 1674 – 21 February 1741) was an English agricultural pioneer who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later a...
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| x Matthew Flinders |
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William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a distinguished navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent.
On his first voyage to New South Wales, he made friends with the...
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| Matthew Flinders Girls' Secondary College | |||
| Flinders University | |||
| Flinders Street, Melbourne | |||
| Division of Flinders | |||
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| x Yarra Yarra | Yarra River |
Yarra Yarra means "waterfall" in Koorie. It was misunderstood by the British and accidentally called it Yarra river. It started when John Wedge and 2 aboriginals were on a sailing ship and John came across a river (now known was the Yarra), he asked...
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| x B-52 Stratofortress |
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The B-52's |
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, who have continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since...
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| x John Calvin |
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Calvin |
John Calvin (French: Jean Calvin, born Jehan Cauvin: 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology...
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| x Thomas Hobbes |
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Hobbes |
Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for...
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| x Simón Bolívar |
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Bolivia |
Cuando la Independencia de América comenzaba a pensarse con otros nombres y a iniciar su recorrido autónomo, nació en Caracas, el 24 de julio de 1783, Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios. Venezuela era entonces una...
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| Universidad Simón Bolívar | |||
| Simón Bolívar International Airport | |||
| USS Simon Bolivar | |||
| Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. | |||
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| x Muhammad bin Saud | Saudi Arabia |
Muhammad ibn Saud (Arabic: محمد بن سعود ) (d. 1765), also known as Ibn Saud, was the emir of Al-Dir'iyyah and is considered the founder of the First Saudi State and the Saud dynasty, which are technically named for his father – Saud ibn Muhammad...
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| x Ebenezer Scrooge |
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Scrooge McDuck |
Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is a cold-hearted, tight-fisted and greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which give people happiness....
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| x Johann Gottfried Zinn |
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Zonule of Zinn |
Johann Gottfried Zinn (December 6, 1727 – April 6, 1759) was a German anatomist and botanist member of the Berlin Academy.
Johann Gottfried Zinn was born in Schwabach. Considering his short life span, Zinn made a great contribution to the study of...
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| x James Tiptree, Jr | James Tiptree, Jr. Award |
James Tiptree, Jr. (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death. She also occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon (1974–77). Tiptree/Sheldon...
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| x Hugo Gernsback |
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The Gernsback Continuum |
Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His...
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| x Mission Dolores (main building) | Mission District | ||
| x Augustus |
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August |
Augustus ( /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/; Classical Latin: [awˈɡʊstʊs]; Latin: Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD....
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| x Jupiter |
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Jupiter |
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Jupiter (Latin: Iuppiter) or Jove is the king of the gods and the god of sky and thunder. He is the equivalent of Zeus in the Greek pantheon.
Jupiter may have originated as a sky-god, associated primarily with...
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| x George Washington |
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Washington, D.C. |
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was the first President of the United States of America, serving from 1789 to 1797, and the dominant military and political leader of the United States from 1775 to...
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| George Washington High School | |||
| George Washington High School | |||
| Washington High School | |||
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| x Samuel Adams |
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Samuel Adams |
Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the...
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| x Tim Horton |
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Tim Hortons |
Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton (January 12, 1930 – February 21, 1974) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in 24 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and...
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| x The Fall | The Fall |
The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel written by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam, The Fall consists of a series of dramatic monologues by the self-proclaimed "judge...
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| x Biafra |
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Jello Biafra |
Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria that existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970, taking its name from the Bight of Biafra (the Atlantic bay to its south). The inhabitants were mostly the...
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| x Equator |
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Ecuador |
An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and containing the sphere's center of mass.
The Equator refers to the Earth's equator and is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface...
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| x The Young Ones | The Young Ones |
"The Young Ones" is a single by Cliff Richard and The Shadows. The song, written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, is the title song to the 1961 film The Young Ones and its soundtrack album. It sold one million in the UK and 2.6m worldwide.
The...
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| x Jell-O |
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Jello Biafra |
Jell-O is a dessert that is made by Kraft Foods for a number of gelatin desserts, including fruit gels, puddings and no-bake cream pies. The brand's popularity has led to it being used as a generic term for gelatin dessert across the U.S. and Canada...
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| x George Berkeley |
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Berkeley College |
George Berkeley ( /ˈbɑrkliː/; 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to...
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| x Catherine of Alexandria |
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St Catherine's College, Oxford |
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Greek ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνα ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th...
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