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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. |
Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. (December 19, 1899 – November 11, 1984), born as Michael King was a Baptist minister, an advocate for social justice, an early civil rights leader and the father of Martin Luther King, Jr. King, Sr. was known for...
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| x Martin Luther |
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Martin Luther King, Sr. |
Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) initiated the Protestant Reformation. As a priest and theology professor, he confronted indulgence salesmen with his The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. Luther strongly disputed their claim that...
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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. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he...
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| Martin Luther King Bridge | |||
| Martin Luther King III | |||
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| x Florence |
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Florence Nightingale |
Florence (Italian: Firenze, pronounced [fiˈrɛntse]; Old Italian: 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 and has a population of 367...
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| Percy Florence Shelley | |||
| x Florence Nightingale |
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Florence Nightingale Museum |
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (pronounced /ˈflɒrəns ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence during the Crimean War for her pioneering work in nursing, and was dubbed "The Lady...
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| USS Florence Nightingale | |||
| Florence Nightingale David | |||
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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) commanded the Light Brigade of the British Army during the Crimean War.
James Brudenell was born in Hambleden, Buckinghamshire and brought up at...
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| x Roald Dahl |
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Roald Dahl Plass |
Roald Dahl (English pronunciation: /ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl/, Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl dɑl]; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
Born in Llandaff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal...
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| Roald Dahl Children's Gallery | |||
| Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre | |||
| 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 first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He was...
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| Amundsen Sea | |||
| Amundsen Glacier | |||
| Amundsen Bay | |||
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| x Kirrily Nolan | Kirrily Robert | ||
| x T'Pau |
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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: [ˈliːnɵs ˈtuːrvalds] ( listen); born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the...
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| x They Might Be Giants |
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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, popularly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας or Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, Mégas Aléxandros; 356–323 BC), was a Greek king (basileus) of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Born in...
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| Alexandria Eschate | |||
| Iskandariya | |||
| Alexandria Asiana | |||
| Alexandria in Ariana | |||
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| x Julius Caesar |
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Julius Caesar |
Gaius Julius Caesar (pronounced [ˈɡaː.i.us ˈjuːli.us ˈkaɪsar] in Classical Latin; conventionally /ˈɡaɪ.əs ˈdʒuːli.əs ˈsiːzər/ in English), (13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader. He played a critical role in the...
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| x Durand Durand | Duran Duran | ||
| x Thor |
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Thursday |
Thor (Old Norse: Þōrr, Þunarr; Old English: Þunor, Þūr; Old Saxon: Þunær; Frisian: Tonger, Old Dutch: Donar; Old High German: Donar; Proto-Germanic: *Thunaraz) is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Germanic mythology and Germanic paganism,...
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| x Romulus and Remus |
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Rome |
Romulus and Remus are the traditional founders of Rome, appearing in Roman mythology as the twin sons of the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia, fathered by the god of war, Mars. According to the tradition recorded as history by Plutarch and Livy, Romulus...
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| French ship Romulus | |||
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| x Doug Anthony |
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Doug Anthony All Stars |
John Douglas Anthony, AC, CH (born 31 December 1929), is a former Australian politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 1971 to 1972 and from 1975 to 1983 and leader of the National Party from 1971 to 1984.
Anthony was born in Murwillumbah in...
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| x Cirith Ungol |
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Cirith Ungol |
Cirith Ungol (pronounced [ˈkiriθ ˈuŋɡɔl], roughly Keerith Oongawl) 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,...
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| x Monty Python |
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Python |
Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential 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...
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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 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: The Sent Down Girl |
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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 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):
Again,...
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| x Mos Eisley | 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 also the...
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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 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 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 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 |
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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| x The Gods of Bal-Sagoth | Bal-Sagoth | ||
| x Jethro Tull |
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Jethro Tull |
The Father of British Agriculture.
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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 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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| Matthew Flinders Girls' Secondary College | |||
| Flinders University | |||
| Flinders Street, Melbourne | |||
| Division of Flinders | |||
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| x Yarra Yarra | Yarra River |
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 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 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 John Calvin |
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Calvin |
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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| x Thomas Hobbes |
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Hobbes |
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, remembered today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of...
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| x Simón Bolívar |
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Bolivia |
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte 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...
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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 |
"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 Ebenezer Scrooge |
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Scrooge McDuck |
Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is a cold-hearted, tight fisted, greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness. A quote...
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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 Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the...
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| x Mission Dolores (main building) | Mission District | ||
| x Augustus |
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August |
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) was the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, he was adopted by his great-uncle Gaius Julius...
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| x Jupiter |
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Jupiter |
In Roman mythology, Jupiter or Jove was the king of the gods, and the god of sky and thunder. He is the equivalent of Zeus in the Greek pantheon. He was called Iuppiter (or Diespiter) Optimus Maximus ("Father God the Best and Greatest"); as the...
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| x George Washington |
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Washington |
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and served as the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797)....
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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 a 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 movement that...
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| x Tim Horton |
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Tim Hortons |
Tim Horton (January 12, 1930 – February 21, 1974) was a Canadian professional hockey defenceman. He played in 24 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. He was...
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| x The Fall |
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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 |
The Republic of Biafra was a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria. Biafra was inhabited mostly by the Igbo people (or Ibo) and existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970. The secession was led by the Igbo due to economic, ethnic, cultural...
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| x Equator |
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Ecuador |
The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the plane perpendicular to the Earth's axis of rotation and containing the Earth's center of mass. In simpler language, it is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface equidistant from the...
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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.
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #5 (Canada, CHUM)
In the 1980s...
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| x Jell-O |
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Jello Biafra |
Jell-O is a brand name belonging to U.S.-based Kraft Foods for a number of gelatin desserts, including fruit gels, puddings and no-bake cream pies. The brand's popularity has led to its becoming a generic term for gelatin dessert across the U.S. and...
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| x George Berkeley |
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Berkeley College |
George Berkeley (pronounced /ˈbɑrkli/) (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as ...
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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 Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς) is a Christian saint and martyr who is claimed to have been a noted scholar in the early 4th...
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