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| x United States Constitution |
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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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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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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, Sr. |
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. |
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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 |
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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. National Historic Site |
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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. 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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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 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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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. 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 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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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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| x Florence Nightingale |
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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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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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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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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 |
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 |
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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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 |
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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 Amelia Bloomer Project |
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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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 James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan |
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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 Plass |
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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 |
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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 Roald Dahl Children's Gallery |
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 |
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 Amundsen |
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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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| x Amundsen Sea |
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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 |
Alex Bayley is a software developer and internet technologist from Melbourne, Australia.
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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 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 GNU/Linux |
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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 Linus Torvalds |
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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 |
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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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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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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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| x Alexandria |
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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 Julius Caesar |
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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 Duran Duran |
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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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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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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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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 Romulus and Remus |
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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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| x Rome |
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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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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 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 |
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 Doug Anthony All Stars |
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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 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 Cirith Ungol |
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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 Python |
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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 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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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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Matmos is a seething lake of evil slime beneath the city Sogo, in the film Barbarella.
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