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| x Mathmos |
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Mathmos is a British company that sells lighting products, most famously its numerous lava lamp models.
The Astro lamp or lava lamp as it is sometimes known, was invented around 1963 by Edward Craven Walker. The rights to produce and sell the lamp...
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| x Gorch Fock |
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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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The Velvet Underground was an American experimental rock band formed in New York City, New York. First active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although never...
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The Velvet Underground is a paperback by journalist Michael Leigh that reports on sexual 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...
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| x Xiu Xiu |
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Xiu Xiu (pronounced [ʃuː ʃuː], shoe-shoe) is an experimental indie rock band originally from and currently based in Oakland, California, with time often spent in Seattle, Washington. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who...
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| x Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl |
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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 Perl |
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Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make...
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| x Parable of the Pearl |
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The Parable of the Pearl or the Pearl of Great Price is a parable told by Jesus in explaining the value of the Kingdom of Heaven, according to Matthew 13:45-46. Other uses of this title refer to this parable.
From the Gospel of Matthew (KJV):
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| x Eisley |
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Eisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings (Chauntelle, Sherri, Stacy, and Weston DuPree) and their cousin (Garron DuPree), all of whom were born and live in Texas.
The band was formed in 1997 as Chauntelle and Sherri began...
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| x Mos Eisley |
Mos Eisley is a spaceport town on the planet Tatooine in the fictional Star Wars universe. In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) described Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." It is the home...
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| x Amon Amarth |
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Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed, melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, founded in 1988 (current name since 1992), and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. As of 2009, the band is signed...
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| x Orodruin |
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Mount Doom is a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe. It is located in the heart of the black land of Mordor and approximately 4,500 feet (1.4 km) high. Alternative names, in Sindarin, include Orodruin ("fiery mountain") and Amon...
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| x Ephel Duath |
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 Ephel Dúath |
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 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.
Liljegren and Grimmark met for the first time in 1993 in Jönköping, a town...
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| x Narnia |
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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 |
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Gorgoroth is a Norwegian black metal band based in Bergen, Norway. The band was founded in 1992 by Infernus (who's also the only original member remaining), and the name was derived from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings in...
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| x 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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Eudora 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 Eudora Welty because of her short...
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| x Eudora Welty |
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Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an award-winning American author who wrote short stories and novels about the American South. Her book, The Optimist's Daughter, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and Welty was awarded the...
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| x H. P. Lovecraft |
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H.P. Lovecraft was an American psychedelic rock group in the 1960s, named for the famous horror writer. Originally formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1967, they relocated to San Francisco, California the following year.
The group included:
H. P....
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| x H. P. Lovecraft |
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is...
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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 |
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Bal-Sagoth are 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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Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the lyrics, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969....
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The Father of British Agriculture.
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| x William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
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Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom...
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| x Matthew Flinders |
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Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and...
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| x Matthew Flinders Girls' Secondary College |
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Matthew Flinders Girls' Secondary College is an all-girls high school located in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It provides education for year 7-12 students.
The school opened as Flinders National Grammar School in January 1858.
The foundation stone...
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Flinders University, or 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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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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| x Division of Flinders |
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The Division of Flinders is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Matthew Flinders, the first man to...
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Flinders is a beautiful and historic town south of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located on the Mornington Peninsula at the point where Western Port meets Bass Strait. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. At the 2006...
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| x Flinders Street Station |
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Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. It is on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets next to the Yarra River in the heart of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to...
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| x Flinders Ranges |
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Flinders Ranges is the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts approximately 200 km north west of Adelaide. The discontinuous ranges stretch for over 430 km from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna. Its most characteristic landmark is...
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| x Flinders Island, Tasmania |
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Flinders Island is an island in Bass Strait. It is 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Cape Portland, the north-eastern tip of Tasmania, Australia and is the largest island in the Furneaux Group.
The Furneaux Group was first discovered by Europeans in 1773...
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| x Yarra River |
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The Yarra River, originally Birrarung, is a river in central Victoria, Australia. The lower stretches of the river is where the city of Melbourne was established in 1835 and today Greater Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower...
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Yarra Yarra are an Indigenous Australian tribe from Melbourne in Australia.
Also a private Golf Club in Melbourne's South Eastern, Located in Bentleigh East [ Yarra Yarra GC]link title
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| x The B-52's |
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The B-52s are a New Wave rock band, formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. In their heyday, their music was marked by the female harmonies of Cindy Wilson (vocals) and Kate Pierson (organ, vocals), Ricky Wilson's (guitar) surf-style...
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| x B-52 Stratofortress |
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The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since 1955.
Beginning with the successful contract bid on 5 June 1946, the B-52 went through several design steps;...
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| x Tristan Buckner |
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| x Calvin |
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Calvin is a fictional character, and one of the two principal characters in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Calvin is characterised by levels of wisdom, vocabulary and humour unusual for a six year-old boy. However, in many ways...
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Hobbes is a character in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. He is Calvin's stuffed tiger, and is depicted with two distinct identities.
From the perspective of his owner, Calvin, Hobbes is a real individual with thoughts, feelings...
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John Calvin (Middle French: Jean 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 later called...
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Bolivia, officially known as Republic of Bolivia, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, and Chile and Peru to the west.
Prior to European colonization,...
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| x Thomas Hobbes |
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Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury , was an English philosopher, remembered today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western...
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| x Simón Bolívar |
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Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios y Blanco, commonly known as Simón Bolívar (July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830) was a South American political leader. Together with José de San Martín, he played a key role in Latin America...
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| x Universidad Simón Bolívar |
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Simón Bolívar University (Universidad Simón Bolívar in Spanish) or USB, is a public institution located in Caracas, Venezuela with scientific and technological orientation.
Both nationally and globally, Simón Bolívar University is a well-known...
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| x Simón Bolívar International Airport |
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Simón Bolívar International Airport of Maiquetia (IATA: CCS, ICAO: SVMI) (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetia Simón Bolívar) is located in Maiquetía, about 13 miles (21 kilometers) from downtown Caracas, Venezuela.
Simply called ...
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| x USS Simon Bolivar |
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USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), a Benjamin Franklin-class fleet ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), a hero of the independence movements of the former Spanish colonies in...
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| x Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. |
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Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914) fought in the United States Army in the Mexican–American War and in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He later served as the thirtieth governor of Kentucky.
After...
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| x Simon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra |
The Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar (Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra) is a Venezuelan youth orchestra. The economist José Antonio Abreu established the orchestra on 12 February 1975. The orchestra is under the auspices of Fundacion del Estado para...
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| x Pico Simón Bolívar |
Pico Simￃﾳn Bolￃﾭvar is the one of the two highest mountains in Colombia, located in the north in the Magdalena Department, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta range. It is approximately 5,700 m high; it is not clear whether or not it is higher than...
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| x Muhammad bin Saud |
"Imam" Muhammad ibn Saud (Arabic: محمد بن سعود ) (d. 1765) is considered the first head of the House of Saud, which is technically named for his father, Saud ibn Muhammed ibn Muqrin. The initial power base was the town of Ad-Dar'iyah, where he met...
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| x Saudi Arabia |
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Saudi Arabia (officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) is an Western Asian country and the largest country of the Middle East. It is bordered by Egypt on the northwest, Jordan and Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United...
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| x Scrooge McDuck |
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Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a Glaswegian anthropomorphic duck created by Carl Barks that first appeared in Four Color Comics #178, Christmas on Bear Mountain, published by Dell Comics in December 1947.
Over the decades, Scrooge has emerged...
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| x Ebenezer Scrooge |
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Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in Charles Dickens' 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 engender happiness. A...
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| x Zonule of Zinn |
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The zonule of Zinn (Zinn's membrane, ciliary zonule) is a ring of fibrous strands connecting the ciliary body with the crystalline lens of the eye. The zonule of Zinn is split into two layers: a thin layer which lines the hyaloid fossa and a thicker...
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