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| x USS Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat....
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United States Constitution |
The keel of a Lexington-class battlecruiser, to have been named USS Constitution (CC-5), was laid down at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September 1920. Her construction was suspended in February 1922 by the Washington Naval Treaty and she was...
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| x Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Martin Luther King, Sr. |
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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| x Martin Luther King, Sr. | Martin Luther |
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 King, Jr. National Historic Site |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site established on October 10, 1980, consists of several buildings surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr.'s boyhood home on Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn historic district of Atlanta, Georgia. The...
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| x Martin Luther King Day |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a United States federal holiday marking the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of King's birthday, January 15. The floating...
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| x Martin Luther King Bridge |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The Martin Luther King Bridge (formerly known as the Veterans Bridge) in St. Louis is a cantilever truss bridge of about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) in total length across the Mississippi River, connecting St. Louis with East St. Louis, Illinois. The...
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| x Martin Luther King III | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Martin Luther King III (born October 23, 1957) is an American human rights advocate and community activist. He is the eldest son and oldest living child of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. His siblings are...
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| x Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is located in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., southwest of the National Mall (but within the larger area commonly referred to as the "National Mall"). The memorial is America's 395th national park. The...
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| x Martin Luther King, Jr. High School | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. High School is a public high school located in Cleveland, Ohio. It is part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The school nickname is the Crusaders.
The school was built in 1972. Like many schools that opened in...
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| x Martin Luther King Middle School | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Martin Luther King Middle School (commonly MLK or King) is a public school in Berkeley, California serving grades 6-8. Its address is 1781 Rose Street.
MLK was originally named Garfield Junior High School after U.S. President James A. Garfield. It...
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| x Florence Nightingale |
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Florence |
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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| x Florence Nightingale Museum |
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Florence Nightingale |
The Florence Nightingale Museum is located at St Thomas' Hospital, which faces the Palace of Westminster across the River Thames in South Bank, central London, England. It is open to the public seven days a week. It re-opened on May 12 2010...
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| x USS Florence Nightingale |
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Florence Nightingale |
USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70) was an Elizabeth C. Stanton-class transport ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the nursing pioneer, and is one of the few United States Navy ships named after a woman....
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| x Florence Nightingale David | Florence Nightingale |
Florence Nightingale David, also known as F. N. David (August 23, 1909 – July 23, 1993) was an English statistician, born in Ivington, Herefordshire, England. She was named after Florence Nightingale, who was a friend of her parents.
David read...
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| x Florence Nightingale Effect | Florence Nightingale |
The Florence Nightingale effect is a term used to describe a doctor's, nurse's or other caregiver's development of feelings for his/her patient. This effect causes a feeling much like infatuation, love or sexual attraction to come over the caregiver...
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| x Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery | Florence Nightingale |
The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery is a school within King's College London. It is primarily concerned with the education of people to become nurses and midwives. It also carries out nursing research, continuing professional...
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| x Bloomers |
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Amelia Bloomer |
Bloomers is a word which has been applied to several types of divided women's garments for the lower body at various times.
The original bloomers were an article of women's clothing invented by Elizabeth Smith Miller of Peterboro, New York an early...
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| x Amelia Bloomer Project | Amelia Bloomer |
The Amelia Bloomer Project is an annual book list published by the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table for the purpose of honoring children's books with feminist themes published during the...
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| x Cardigan |
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James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan |
A cardigan is a type of sweater or jumper that ties, buttons or zips up the front; by contrast, a pullover does not open in front but must be "pulled over" the head to be worn. It may be machine- or hand-knitted. The cardigan was named after James...
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| x Roald Dahl Plass |
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Roald Dahl |
Roald Dahl Plass (Welsh: Plas Roald Dahl) is a public plaza in Cardiff Bay, part of Cardiff, Wales. It is named after Cardiff-born author Roald Dahl, and is located on the coast along the south of the city centre. The square is home to the Senedd ...
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| x Roald Dahl Children's Gallery | Roald Dahl |
The Roald Dahl Children's Gallery is in Church Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. A children's museum in honour of Roald Dahl, it was opened on 23 November 1996 by Terence Hardiman, an actor popular with children due to his role as the...
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| x Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre | Roald Dahl |
The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre is in the village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England, which was the home of the children's and short story writer Roald Dahl for 36 years until his death in 1990.
The museum was officially opened on...
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| x Roald Dahl |
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Roald Amundsen |
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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| x Amundsen Sea |
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Roald Amundsen |
The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica. It is bounded by Cape Flying Fish, the northwestern tip of Thurston Island to the east and Cape Dart on Siple Island to the west. East of Cape Flying Fish...
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| x Alex Bayley | Kirrily Nolan |
Alex Bayley is a software developer and internet technologist from Melbourne, Australia.
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| x T'Pau | T'Pau |
T'Pau was a 1980s British pop group led by singer Carol Decker. They had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe. Decker still occasionally performs under the name T'Pau at solo shows and 1980s nostalgia...
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| x GNU/Linux |
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Linus Torvalds |
Linux (/ˈlɪnəks/ LIN-əks or /ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks) is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel, an operating...
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| x They Might Be Giants |
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They Might Be Giants |
They Might Be Giants (sometimes abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the...
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| x Alexandria |
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Alexander the Great |
Alexandria (Arabic: الإسكندرية Al Iskandariyya, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ Rakotə, Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια Alexándria, Koine Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ κατ' Αἴγυπτον IPA: [ɑlɛˈksɑndɾiɑ e kɑt ˈɛʝypton] "Alexandria in Egypt", Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه [eskendeˈrejːæ]) is...
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| x Duran Duran |
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Durand Durand |
Duran Duran are an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States. Since the 1980s, they have placed 14...
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| x July |
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Julius Caesar |
July (/dʒʊˈlaɪ/ juu-LY) is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month...
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| x Thursday |
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Thor |
Thursday (/ˈθɜrzdi/ or /ˈθɜrzdeɪ/) is the fourth day of the week according to the ISO 8601 international standard adopted in most western countries. In countries that use the Sunday-first convention and in the Judeo-Christian calendar it is the...
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| x Rome |
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Romulus and Remus |
Rome (English pronunciation: /ˈroʊm/; Italian: Roma pronounced [ˈroːma] ( listen); Latin: Rōma) is a city and special comune ("Roma Capitale") in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and the capital of Lazio (Latin: Latium). With 2.8 million...
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| x French ship Romulus |
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Romulus and Remus |
The Romulus was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
In February 1814, under captain Rolland, she sailed from Toulon to Genoa, being part of a division under Julien Cosmao. She was engaged by three British ships of the line,...
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| x Romulus | Romulus and Remus |
Romulus is the outer and larger moon of the main-belt asteroid 87 Sylvia, not to be confused with the directly Sun-orbiting asteroid 10386 Romulus. It follows an almost-circular close-to-equatorial orbit around the parent asteroid. In this respect...
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| x Doug Anthony All Stars |
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Doug Anthony |
The Doug Anthony All Stars (or Doug Anthony Allstars, DAAS, D.A.A.S. or stylized as D⋆A†A☭S) were an Australian musical comedy group who performed together between 1984 and 1994. The band was an acoustic trio comprising Paul McDermott and Tim...
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| x Cirith Ungol | Cirith Ungol |
Cirith Ungol was a Californian heavy metal band who formed in 1972 and split up in May 1992. They drew influences from other metal groups such as Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy, as well as Iggy and the Stooges. Their first album, Frost and Fire, was...
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| x Python |
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Monty Python |
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to combine "remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive.
Python...
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Matmos |
Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on...
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| x Mathmos |
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Matmos |
Mathmos is a British company that sells lighting products, most famously the lava lamp invented by its founder Edward Craven Walker. It is headquartered in its factory in Poole, Dorset.
The Astro lamp or lava lamp as it is sometimes known, was...
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| x Gorch Fock |
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Johann Kinau |
The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the German Navy (Deutsche Marine). She is the second ship of that name and a sister ship of the Gorch Fock built in 1933. Both ships are named in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym ...
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| x The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground |
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City. First active from 1964 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although experiencing little commercial...
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| x Xiu Xiu |
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl |
Xiu Xiu ( /ˈʃuːʃuː/) is an American avant-garde group originally from San Jose, California. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who has been its only constant member since its inception in 2002. His current bandmate is...
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| x Perl | Parable of the Pearl |
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in usage, such as: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Perl was originally developed by...
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| x Eisley |
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Mos Eisley |
Eisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings (Chauntelle, Sherri, Stacy, and Weston) and their cousin (Garron), all of whom were born and live in Texas. Although the band's name translates to ice island in several Germanic...
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| x Amon Amarth |
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Orodruin |
Amon Amarth is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden founded in 1992, and takes its name from the Sindarin translation of Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Their lyrics mostly deal with the Vikings, their...
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| x Ephel Duath | Ephel Dúath |
Ephel Duath is an Italian progressive metal band, formed in 1998 in Padova, Italy. They have had a constantly changing line-up with guitarist and songwriter Davide Tiso, being the only original member. To date, they have released one demo, four...
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| x Narnia | Narnia |
Narnia is a Christian neo-classical progressive power metal band founded by guitarist Carl Johan Grimmark and singer Christian Liljegren. The band formed in Sweden in 1996. Their album themes heavily reference The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis...
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| x Gorgoroth |
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Gorgoroth |
Gorgoroth is a Norwegian black metal band based in Bergen. Formed in 1992 by Infernus (who is also the only original member remaining), the band is named after the dead plateau of evil and darkness in the land of Mordor from J. R. R. Tolkien's...
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| x Eudora | Eudora Welty |
Eudora /juːˈdɔərə/ is an e-mail client used on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It also supports several palmtop computing platforms, including Newton and the Palm OS. The software was named after American author Eudora...
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| x H. P. Lovecraft | H. P. Lovecraft |
H. P. Lovecraft was an American psychedelic rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1967 and named after the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Much of the band's music was possessed of a haunting, eerie ambience, and consisted of material that was...
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| x H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society | H. P. Lovecraft |
The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society or HPLHS is the organization that hosts Cthulhu Lives!, a group of live-action roleplayers for the Cthulhu Live version of Call of Cthulhu. Founded in Colorado in 1984, it is now based in Glendale, California....
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| x Bal-Sagoth | The Gods of Bal-Sagoth |
Bal-Sagoth is a symphonic black metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 1993.
Originally formed as an epic/symphonic black metal band with strong death metal elements, vocalist/lyricist Byron Roberts took the name 'Bal-Sagoth' from the Robert...
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| x Jethro Tull |
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Jethro Tull |
Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in Luton, Bedfordshire, in December 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of...
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| x William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Matthew Flinders |
William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts. He held the first chair of...
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| x Matthew Flinders Girls' Secondary College | Matthew Flinders |
Matthew Flinders Girls' Secondary College is an all-girls high school located in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It provides education for students years 7-12.
The school opened as Flinders National Grammar School in January 1858.
The foundation stone...
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| x Flinders University |
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Matthew Flinders |
Flinders University, (The Flinders University of South Australia), is a public university in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline...
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| x Flinders Street, Melbourne |
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Matthew Flinders |
Flinders Street is a notable street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Running roughly parallel to the Yarra River, Flinders Street forms the southern edge of the Hoddle Grid. It is exactly one mile (1609.344 m) in length and one and half chains (30...
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