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Ellwood House
The Ellwood House was built as a private home by barbed wire entrepreneur Isaac Ellwood in 1879. It is located on First Street in DeKalb Illinois United States in DeKalb County. The Victorian style home designed by George O. Garnsey underwent remodeling in 1898-1899 and 1911. The house was originally part of 1000 acres (4 km²) which included a large stable complex known as Ellwood Green. Isaac Ellwood lived here until 1910 when he passed the estate to his son Perry Ellwood.
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CSS Acadia
CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying and oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor the Canadian Hydrographic Service.Acadia served Canada for more than five decades from 1913–1969 charting the coastline of almost every part of Eastern Canada including pioneering surveys of Hudson Bay. She was also twice commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) as HMCS Acadia the only ship still afloat to have served the RCN in both World Wars.
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Cameron A. Morrison
Cameron A. Morrison (October 5 1869 – August 20 1953) was the 55th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1921 to 1925.He was born in 1869 in Richmond County North Carolina. With the backing of Sen. Furnifold Simmons and the help of race-baiting tactics employed by A. D. Watts Morrison defeated O. Max Gardner in the 1920 Democratic primary for Governor. He was later called the Good Roads governor for his support of a modern highway system.
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Samuel Tsegay
Samuel Tsegay (born 24 October 1988) is an Eritrean long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres and 10000 metres. He was born in Kudofelasi. As a junior he competed in the junior races at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships finishing seventeenth in 2005 eighth in 2006 and eighth in 2007. He finished fourth in the 10000 metres at the 2006 World Junior Championships.At the 2009 World Cross Country Championships he finished sixteenth in the senior race.
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M. Nasir
Mohamad Nasir Mohamad or M. Nasir (born 4 July 1957 in Singapore) is a Singaporean-Malaysian poet singer-songwriter composer producer actor and film director.
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USS Yorktown (PG-1)
USS Yorktown (Gunboat No. 1/PG-1) was lead ship of her class of steel-hulled twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named in honor of the American Revolutionary War's Battle of Yorktown.Yorktown was laid down by William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia in May 1887 and launched in April 1888. She was just over 244 feet (74 m) long and 36 feet (11 m) abeam and displaced 1710 long tons (1740 t).
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Arthur Gore (tennis)
Arthur William Charles Wentworth Gore (2 January 1868 – 1 December 1928) was a former World No. 1 male tennis player from Great Britain. He is best known for his two Gold medals at the London Olympics in 1908 winning the Men's Indoor Singles and the Men's Indoor Doubles (with Herbert Barrett). He also competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
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SITE Engineering College
SHREE Institute of Technical Education (or simply SITE) is a privately owned educational institute located in Srimallavaram Village Near Tirupati Andhra Pradesh India. The institute main campus is set upon 20 acres (81000 m2) Srimallavaram village near Srikalahasti 16 km away from the city center. The institute offers engineering and MBA courses.
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Marco Mangold
Marco Mangold (born 7 April 1987) is a Swiss football midfielder who currently plays for FC Schaffhausen.
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Plymouth Concord
The Plymouth Concord was a full-size car produced by the Plymouth division of Chrysler between 1951 and 1952. It was Plymouth's least expensive model in its lineup. It replaced the Deluxe and was replaced by the Savoy but only from 1954 onwards.The Concord Series was available in a simple Deluxe trim level. For the station wagon an additional Special Savoy top-of-the-line trim level was available.
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Kronos Foods
Kronos Foods is the manufacturer of gyros.
Company
Mucky Foot Productions
Mucky Foot Productions was a UK computer game developer from 1997 - 2003.
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John L. Thompson House
The John L. Thompson House is a historic house in The Dalles Oregon United States. John L. Thompson an American emigrant and successful blacksmith built his house in 1889 in a simple one-story vernacular style. Subsequently in 1897 the house underwent a significant expansion to become a prominent Queen Anne residence. The house represents the evolution of architecture in frontier towns and is one of The Dalles' outstanding examples of the Queen Anne style.
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HMS Shannon (1906)
HMS Shannon was a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. Before the First World War she served with the Home Fleet generally as the flagship of a cruiser squadron. The ship remained with the Grand Fleet as the Home Fleet was renamed when the war began for the entire war but only participated in a single battle the Battle of Jutland in May 1916.
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Elder High School
Elder High School is a parochial all-male college-preparatory high school in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati Ohio USA. The high school has been in existence for 90 years and is a parochial high school within the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. This high school is known for its academic program athletic program and spirited following of students alumni and friends who support the school at sports events community events and fundraising for capital and operating budgets.
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East Community Learning Center
East Community Learning Center formerly known as East High School is a public high school in Akron Ohio. It is one of seven high schools in the Akron Public Schools.
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USS Galatea (1862)
USS Galatea (1862) was a large steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as an escort gunboat in support of the Union Navy mostly in various parts of the Caribbean such as in Haiti where her role was to protect American citizens. She was sold to the Haitian government in 1865 after becoming unseaworthy because of leaks.
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Dudley House (Ventura California)
Dudley House at 4085 Telegraph Rd. in Ventura California is a historic Late Victorian-style saltbox house that was built in 1891. It was designed and built by architect and builder Selwyn Shaw. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.At the time of the NRHP listing the farmhouse was occupied by the fifth generation of the Dudley family and the property included nine out of an original 200 acres.
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John Foley (rugby league)
John Jack Foley was a Welsh professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s and '10s playing at representative level for Wales and Welsh League XIII and at club level for Ebbw Vale as a Prop i.e. number 8 or 10 during the era of contested scrums.
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Jim Crace
James Jim Crace (born 1 March 1946) is an award-winning English writer. His novels include Quarantine which was judged Whitbread Novel of 1998 and Harvest which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
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Eryk Kurnatowski
Hrabia Eryk Kurnatowski (October 8 1883 – February 23 1975) was a Polish nobleman and politician who served a Member of the Senate from 1922 to 1927.
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Lou Hickey
Lou Hickey (born Mhairi-Louise Hickey) is a singer-songwriter from Neilston near Glasgow Scotland. She has been working as a solo artist since 2006 and in 2008 joined Jon Lawler from the Fratellis in a band called Codeine Velvet Club which disbanded in 2010. Since then Lou has recorded her debut album and is currently preparing for its release.
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Utva-65
The Utva-65 Privrednik (Merchant) is a Yugoslav civil aircraft designed and used for agricultural work.
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Max Brenner
Max Brenner is an Israeli chocolate retail store chain operating as a subsidiary of the Strauss Group Israel’s second-largest food and beverage company. Max Brenner chocolates are marketed as Chocolate by the Bald Man and the company operates a total of eight full-service restaurants five being in Israel and one each in Boston New York City and Philadelphia as well as 44 chocolate bars in Australia Japan Singapore and Russia.
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USNS Sgt. Archer T. Gammon (T-AK-243)
USNS Sgt. Archer T. Gammon (T-AK-243) was a Boulder Victory-class cargo ship built at the end of World War II and served the war and its demilitarization as a commercial cargo vessel. From 1946 to 1950 she served the U.S. Army as a transport named USAT Sgt. Archer T. Gammon. In 1950 she was acquired by the United States Navy and assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service. In 1973 she ended her career and was struck and scrapped.
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Bugaboo International
Bugaboo International B.V. is a Dutch design company that makes pushchairs for infants and toddlers. Its products are available in 50 countries. Bugaboo International employs 800 people working at headquarters in Amsterdam The Netherlands or in one of the offices in the UK Germany Sweden Italy Spain USA France Australia and in the assembly plant in China.
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MSC Divina
MS MSC Divina is a cruise ship owned and operated by MSC Cruises. She was constructed from 2010–2012 and was originally called the MSC Fantastica until the company renamed her to honor actress Sophia Loren. She entered service in May 2012 and is handling cruises in the Caribbean. She is a Fantasia-class cruise ship built after her running mates MSC Splendida and MSC Fantasia and followed up by the MSC Preziosa.
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Shin Won-ho
Shin Won-ho (신원호) is a South Korean actor member and Face of The Group of Cross Gene who is best known for his role as Kang Kyung-joon in KBS Big
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Don Loun
Donald Nelson Loun (born November 9 1940 in Frederick Maryland) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was signed by the Washington Senators before the 1961 season and appeared in two games for them in 1964. Both games were as a starter and they had extremely different results.In Loun's major league debut (September 23 1964) he pitched a 1-0 complete game shutout against the visiting Boston Red Sox allowing just five hits and no walks. Only 1491 fans were in attendance at D.C.
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Frostee Rucker
Frostee Rucker (born September 14 1983) is an American football defensive end for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Southern California.Rucker has also played for the Cleveland Browns.
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Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost refers both to a car model and to one specific car from that series.Originally named the 40/50 h.p. the chassis was first made at Royce's Manchester works with production moving to Derby in July 1908 and also between 1921 and 1926 in Springfield Massachusetts. Chassis no.
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Bournville College
Bournville College is a further education college based in Longbridge Birmingham. The college offers courses that include A Levels BTECs NVQs Apprenticeships and bespoke qualifications. Bournville College has been awarded a Training Quality Standard (TQS).In May 2009 the college was awarded ‘outstanding grades’ for ‘Employer Views’ and ‘Training Quality Standard’.A January Ofsted inspection accorded the college a Grade 3 (satisfactory) report.
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Greg Adams (ice hockey born 1963)
Gregory Daren Adams (born August 1 1963) is a Canadian former ice hockey winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1984 to 2001.
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Frenchay Hospital
Frenchay Hospital is a large hospital situated in Frenchay South Gloucestershire on the north east outskirts of Bristol England. It is part of the North Bristol NHS Trust.
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Hillsborough Community College
Hillsborough Community College (HCC) is a two-year community college located in Hillsborough County Florida.
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Rail-Veyor
Rail-Veyor is a remote controlled electrically powered light-rail haulage solution for surface and underground applications in the mining and aggregate industries. Rail-Veyor Technologies Global Inc. is a private Sudbury Canada-based industrial bulk material handling and material haulage company that manufactures and installs Rail-Veyor systems.
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University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
The Graduate School of Public Health (sometimes abbreviated GSPH or shortened to Pitt Public Health) is one of 17 schools at the University of Pittsburgh. The school founded in 1948 was first led by Thomas Parran surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service. It is ranked as the 11th best such school in the United States by US News and World Report. In addition it is ranked third among public health schools for funding received from the National Institutes of Health.
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Álex da Rosa
Álex Rodrigo da Rosa Comelles (born June 1 1976 in Santiago Brasil) best known as Álex da Rosa is a naturalized Bolivian football midfielder who plays for Bolivar in the Bolivian First Division.
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Oldfields Hall Middle School
Oldfield Hall Middle School is a Middle School in Uttoxeter Staffordshire. it is one of three middle schools in the area the others being Windsor Park School which is Also in Uttoxeter and Ryecroft School in Rocester. Oldfields is the largest of the three.
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John Ennis (baseball)
John Wayne Ennis (born October 17 1979) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. Ennis made his Major League Baseball debut on April 10 2002 with the Atlanta Braves.Ennis pitched 4 innings in his first major league game; however that one appearance was his only appearance for the Braves. Ennis pitched 16 innings in 12 appearances for the Detroit Tigers in 2004 posting an 8.44 ERA.
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Keio 1000 series
The Keio 1000 series (京王1000系) is a DC commuter electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by Keio Corporation in Tokyo Japan. As of January 2010 27 5-car trainsets are in operation.
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Robert Mark Kamen
Robert Mark Kamen is an American screenwriter who has been writing major motion pictures for over twenty-five years. He is best known as creator and co-creator of the Karate Kid and Transporter franchises as well as the 2008 action thriller Taken.
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National Mint of Bolivia
The National Mint of Bolivia (Spanish: Casa de la Moneda de Bolivia) or the Mint of Potosí (in colonial era) is a mint located in the city of Potosí in Bolivia. It is from this mint that most of the silver shipped through the Spanish Main came. The coinage minted during its period became so well known in the world that a saying memorialized by Miguel de Cervantes came into use: valer un potosí to be worth a potosí (that is a fortune).
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Ayrton Azzopardi
Ayrton Azzopardi (born 12 September 1993) is a Maltese international footballer who plays for Hibernians as a midfielder.
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Joseph Jasgur
Joseph Jasgur (March 23 1919 – March 21 2009) was a photographer who photographed celebrities during the golden age of Hollywood. He was noted for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe.Monroe stepped into Jasgur's studio in 1946 with no money but the ambition to become a model. Jasgur shot numerous photographs of her over the following weeks including glamour shots that she used in her 20th Century Fox interview.
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Sint-Anna Church (Itterbeek)
The Sint-Anna Church is a Roman Catholic church in Sint-Anna-Pede in the municipality of Dilbeek Belgium. It is depicted on The Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Breughel the Elder.
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Nguyễn Thế Anh
Nguyễn Thế Anh is a Vietnamese goalkeeper who plays for Vietnamese V-League club Navibank Sài Gòn. He was also a member of Vietnam national football team.
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Krishnakant Upadhyay
Krishnakant Upadhyay (born 18 June 1986) is cricketer from Uttar Pradesh. Born in Agra Uttar Pradesh he plays for Pune Warriors India in the Indian Premier League and for Railways in Ranji Trophy. He is a medium pace bowler and played his first Indian Premier League match against Royal Challengers Bangalore with a performance of 0/33 in 4 overs.
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Joan Gideon Loten
Joan Gideon Loten (also spelt Johan or John) (16 May 1710 – 25 February 1789) was a Dutch servant in the colonies of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) the 29th Governor of Zeylan Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1760) and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (elected 1761). During his time in the colonies he made collections of natural history. In 1758 he moved to Holland.
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István Vásáry
István Vásáry (29 January 1887 – 25 August 1955) was a Hungarian politician who served as Minister of Finance between 1944 and 1945 in the Interim National Government. He studied law in his birthplace. He was the mayor of Debrecen between 1928 and 1935. He became representative as member of the Smallholders Party in 1939. After 1945 he led the party's right-wing side. On 12 March 1946 he was excluded from the party onto the pressure of the Hungarian Communist Party.
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Democratic National Committee
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day-to-day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political activity in support of Democratic Party candidates and not on public policy.
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University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry
The School of Dentistry is a dental school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.It was established in 1881 as the Kansas City Dental College and was originally part of Kansas City Medical College.In 1941 the Kansas CIty Dental College merged with Western Dental College to form the Kansas City-Western Dental College.The School of Dentistry is located on Hospital Hill in Kansas City close to the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine Truman Medical Center-Hospital Hill and Children's Mercy Hospital.
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Louise Simard (author)
Louise Simard (b. 1950) is a Quebec writer.She was born in Montreal and grew up in Mont-Laurier Quebec. As of 2010 she was living in Stoke in the Eastern Townships.Simard earned a Master's degree and Doctorate in French studies from the Université de Sherbrooke.In 1992 her book La très noble demoiselle was nominated for a Governor General's Award for French language fiction.
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Watchman Institute
The Watchman Industrial School and Camp known to some as the Watchman Institute was founded in 1908 for black youths by Reverend William S. Holland in Providence Rhode Island. He based it on the educational theories of Booker T. Washington. In 1923 Holland moved the school to North Scituate when he acquired the property of the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute.
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Cabot Cabot & Forbes
Cabot Cabot & Forbes was founded by Francis Murray Forbes in 1897 as a real estate management firm. It is one of Boston's largest firms in that industry. with interests on a nationwide basis.Notable American business leaders who have worked at this firm:Mortimer ZuckermanGerald BlakeleyEdward H. LindeCharles H. Spaulding founder of Spaulding & Slye↑ ↑
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Hamilton Parke O'Connor
Hamilton Parke O'Connor (November 10 1844 – September 13 1900) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Bruce South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1882 to 1894 as a Liberal member.He was born in London Canada West in 1844 the son of Hamilton Bligh O'Connor. He qualified to practice as an attorney in 1867 and was called to the bar in 1878. In 1875 he married Jane Watkins McLean. O'Connor served as mayor of Walkerton in 1880 and 1881.
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Anita Zarnowiecki
Anita Rosa Zarnowiecki (born 26 May 1954) is a Swedish swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1970 European Aquatics Championships. She competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in four events and finished sixth and eights in the 4×100 m freestyle and medley relays respectively.Being Jewish she participated at the ninth Maccabiah Games in 1973.
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Kristan Cunningham
Kristan Cunningham is an American actress and interior designer living in Los Angeles CA U.S. She studied interior design at the University of Charleston. Kristan was raised in Sylvester and is a graduate of Sherman High School in Seth West Virginia.Kristan Cunningham is best known as a host of HGTV's Design on a Dime as well as her appearances on Rachael Ray.
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MEKO 200
The MEKO 200 is a frigate design by the Blohm + Voss shipyard of Germany as part of the MEKO family of warships.
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St Anselm's Church Southall
St Anselm's Church in Southall is a Roman Catholic parish church served by the Society of Jesus in the London Borough of Ealing within the administration of the Archdiocese of Westminster. It is situated on The Green a main thoroughfare into Southall. The parish is home to the De Nobili Dialogue Centre; a Jesuit building for inter-religious dialogue. It is also the only Catholic church in Southall and the parish has more than fifty nationalities represented in the congregation.
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Niederhaslach Church
The Roman Catholic Parish church Saint John the Baptist (French: Église paroissiale Saint-Jean Baptiste) formerly Collegiate church Saint Florentius (Collégiale Saint-Florent) is the main church of the small city of Niederhaslach in Alsace. The building is widely considered one of the finest and most ornate examples of Gothic architecture and Gothic art in the Bas-Rhin departement of France.
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SS Iron Knob
SS Iron Knob was a 3349 GRT Australian cargo ship of BHP Shipping. It was built by Poole & Steele Ltd of Adelaide South Australia in 1922 for the Australian Commonwealth Line and initially named SS Euwarra.
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Julia Dietze
Julia Dietze (born 9 January 1981 in Marseille France) is a German actress.
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David Layne
David Bronco Layne (born Sheffield 29 July 1939) is a former English footballer most famous for playing for Sheffield Wednesday and his involvement in the British betting scandal of 1964.Layne started his career playing part-time for Rotherham United in the summer of 1957. He only played eleven matches for the Millers over two seasons but still managed to score four goals before he was given a free transfer and joined Swindon Town.
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Felix Dale Stone House
Felix Dale Stone House also known as the L.R. Parks House is a historic home located at College Township Centre County Pennsylvania. It was built in 1823 and is a two story five-bay Georgian styled stone farmhouse with a gable roof. It features two front entrances with a hipped roof porch. The interior has a center hall plan and features finely crafed woodwork.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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Dănuț Grecu
Dănuţ (Dan) Grecu (born 26 September 1950 in Bucharest) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who specialized in rings. In 1974 he became Romania’s first world champion in artistic gymnastics. He is a bronze Olympic medalist and a multiple world and European medalist on rings. Grecu represented Romania at three Olympic Games (1972 1976 and 1980).After retirement he was for many years the head coach of the Romanian national team of men's artistic gymnastics.He is Marian Dragulescu's coach.
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Bauhaus Entertainment
Imagica DigitalScape Bauhaus Entertainment (株式会社イマジカデジタルスケープ・バウハウスエンタテインメント) is a Japanese video game developer.Created in 2006 by the human resource agency Imagica DigitalScape (part of Imagica Robot Holdings Inc.) both merged in 2009 in order to be able to diversify its services spectrum.Bauhaus Entertainment has helped with the creation of over a dozen videogames from well known franchises.The company usually takes part in the creation of character modelling background modelling real-time animation and cutscene animation of large games.
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Presbyterian High School
Presbyterian High School (Simplified Chinese: 长老会中学) is a government-aided co-ed missionary secondary school in Ang Mo Kio Singapore.
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Lovemore Majaivana
Lovemore Majaivana Tshuma (born 1954) commonly known as Lovemore Majaivana is a Zimbabwean musician arguably the most popular Ndebele singer and by far the most prominent to have come out of Bulawayo. He earned the stage name 'Majaivana' (which means good dancer) for his exceptional dancing.
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Jacob Thomas Schell
Jacob Thomas Schell (December 27 1850 – July 29 1916) was a merchant and political figure. He represented Glengarry in the Canadian House of Commons from 1900 to 1908 as a Liberal member.He was born in East Oxford Township Canada West in 1850 the son of Jacob Schell and educated in Woodstock. He is Great Grandson of Johann Christian Schell a Palatine German from German Flatts New York who died fighting for the Americans in 1782 on his farm.
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Hermann von Schmid
Hermann von Schmid (1815–1880) was a German novelist and dramatist born at Weizenkirchen Austria and educated at Munich. In 1870 he became manager of the Gärtnerthor Theatre in Munich and resigned the position after a few years. His plays collected in 1853 include several historical dramas such as Karl Stuart and Columbus but his greater success was in portraying peasant life as in Die Z'widerwurz'n (1878) and Der Tatzelwurm (1880).
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Keith P. Sommer
Keith P. Sommer is a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives representing the 106th district since 1999. Following the legislative map changes effective in 2012 Representative Sommer is now serving the Illinois 88th district.
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USS Ortolan (ASR-22)
USS Ortolan (ASR-22) a twin-hulled submarine rescue ship was laid down 28 August 1968 by the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile Alabama; launched 10 September 1969; sponsored by Mrs. Nels C. Johnson; and was commissioned on 14 July 1973.Ortolan was designed to operate Mystic-class deep submergence rescue vehicles and was the second and final vessel of the Pigeon class built by the U.S. Navy.
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Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh (also spelled as Sadeq) Hedayat (in Persian: صادق هدایت; February 17 1903 Tehran — 9 April 1951 Paris France) was Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories. His writings are banned or censored in Muslim world especially in Iran.
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Bertrams
Bertrams is the second largest United Kingdom based wholesaler of books owned since 2009 by Smiths News. It has 150000 titles available for same-day despatch and has access to over 600k books in print. The group includes Bertram Books Bertram Publisher Services and Bertram Library Services. The company was founded in 1971 by Elsie Bertram and her son Kip based on a business which Elsie had been running since 1965 in a chicken shed in the garden of her Norwich home.
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Sky Work Airlines
SkyWork Airlines AG is a Swiss airline with its head office in Belp. Previously the airline's head office was in the north terminal of Bern Airport in Belp. It primarily operates scheduled flights to destinations across Europe and Northern Africa with charter operations throughout the summer months.
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Edward Staback
Edward G. Ed Staback is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was succeeded by Frank Farina.
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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is a museum located in Hobart Tasmania. The museum was established in 1843 by the Royal Society of Tasmania under the leadership of Sir John Franklin the oldest Royal Society outside of England. It receives 300000 visitors annually.
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Tremalt
Tremalt Limited was a mining company incorporated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was the vehicle for a highly criticized deal in 2001 in which it bought copper assets at far below their estimated value in return for a private agreement to pay a share of profits to the DRC and Zimbabwe governments. Allegedly some of the payments were made in the form of military equipment.
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Visa Inc.
Visa Inc. (/ˈviːzə/ or /ˈviːsə/) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Foster City California United States. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world most commonly through Visa-branded credit cards and debit cards.
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Paul McCarthy (footballer born 1971)
Paul Jason McCarthy (born 4 August 1971) is an Irish footballer who plays for Ebbsfleet United as a defender. He has made over 500 appearances in the Football League and Conference National notably for Brighton & Hove Albion Wycombe Wanderers and Ebbsfleet United.
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Raynald Arseneault
Raynald Arseneault (9 June 1945 – 27 January 1995) was a Canadian composer and organist. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre his compositional output consists of more than 50 works. His style was particularly influenced by Ivan Wyschnegradsky and Giacinto Scelsi; both of whom he met with in Europe during the 1970s.
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Claudio Lombardelli
Claudio Lombardelli (born 14 October 1987) is a Luxembourgian football player who currently plays for Jeunesse d'Esch in the Luxembourg National Division.
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Balao-class submarine
The Balao-class was a successful design of United States Navy submarine used during World War II and with 122 units built the largest class of submarines in the United States Navy. An improvement on the earlier Gato-class the boats had slight internal differences. The most significant improvement was the use of thicker higher yield strength steel in the pressure hull skins and frames which increased their test depth to 400 feet (120 m).
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Local Media Group
Local Media Group Inc. formerly Dow Jones Local Media Group and Ottaway Newspapers Inc. is a subsidiary of Newcastle Investment Corp. and owns newspapers Web sites and niche publications in California Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Oregon and Pennsylvania. It is headquartered in Middletown New York and its flagship is the Times Herald-Record.
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La Tumbona House
Casa La Tumbona is a house on the beach in Ostende a coastal resort in Pinamar Partido in the province of Buenos Aires Argentina. It was designed in 1986 by the architect Clorindo Testa who is a prominent member of the Argentine rationalist movement and one of the pioneers of brutalist architecture there. The house is elevated on pillars and located so close to the sea that the waves at times can wash underneath the house.
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Istanbul 4th Vakıf Han
The Istanbul 4th Vakıf Han is a historical large office building located at Eminönü quarter of Fatih district in Istanbul Turkey and owned by the Foundations Administration (Turkish: Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü). Currently it is used as a five star hotel of World Park Hotel chain named Legacy Ottoman.
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Seiji Maehara
Seiji Maehara (前原 誠司 Maehara Seiji born 30 April 1962) is a Japanese politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives of Japan since 1993.
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Hamisi Kigwangalla
Hamisi Andrea Kigwangalla (born 7 August 1975) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Nzega constituency since 2010.
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Colin B. Mackay
Colin Bridges Mackay OC QC (July 26 1920 – November 27 2003) was president of the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton New Brunswick Canada from 1953 to 1969.Mackay oversaw the expansion of the university from a small college to a regional institution including a fivefold increase in enrollment and major construction of residences academic and multipurpose buildings.In 1970 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his services to education.
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Empire Company
Empire Company Limited (TSX: EMP.A) is a Canadian conglomerate engaged mostly in food retail and corporate investments. The company is headquartered in Stellarton Nova Scotia. Empire Company also owns the Sobeys supermarket chain. The company was founded in 1963.
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Giuseppe Sacconi
Giuseppe Sacconi (Montalto delle Marche July 5 1854- 1905) was an Italian architect. He is best known as the designer of the monument of Vittorio Emanuele II in the centre of Rome.The monument was erected amid both extravagant praise and dismay. Time has not proven to generate more respect for this massive work. He was born in Montalto delle Marche.
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Dr Gray's Hospital
Dr. Gray's Hospital is the smallest District General Hospital in Scotland. It is in Elgin Moray and is part of NHS Grampian. It is also part of the Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership (MCHSP).The hospital was founded as a result of a bequest by Dr Alexander Gray (d. 1807) who was born in Elgin but worked as a surgeon for the East India Company.
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Leon Wessels
Leon Wessels (born 19 April 1946) is a South African lawyer politician and activist who served in the white minority National Party government during the apartheid years and was one of very few Afrikaner politicians to show public contrition for the acts of that government.
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Tina Root
Tina Root (born Bettina Root) also now known as Tina Minero is an American classically trained female vocalist and songwriter from Los Angeles California perhaps most famous for her work performing as the lead singer of Switchblade Symphony during the mid- to late 1990s. Her current work includes a solo performance and recording project Tre Lux and a partnership project called Small Halo with guitarist and fellow songwriter George Earth.
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Philip Sutton (artist)
Philip Sutton (born 20 October 1928 in Poole Dorset) is a British artist active since the 1950s best known for large and highly coloured paintings of landscape flowers and people.
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Sheena Blackhall
Sheena Blackhall is a poet novelist short story writer illustrator traditional story teller and singer.Author of over 100 poetry pamphlets 12 short story collections 4 novels and 2 televised plays for children The Nicht Bus and The Broken Hert.
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Delta N
The Delta N or Thor-Delta N was an American expendable launch system used for nine orbital launches between 1968 and 1972. It was a member of the Delta family of rockets and the last Delta to be given an alphabetical designation - subsequent rockets were designated using a four digit numerical code.The Delta N consisted of two stages. The first stage was the Long Tank Thor a stretched version of the Thor missile previously flown on the Delta L and Delta M.
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John Gardner (Rhode Island)
John Gardner (17 September 1697 - January 1764) served for more than eight years as the deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and was also a Chief Justice of the colony's Superior Court.
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Gibbs (New York City Subway car)
The Gibbs Hi-V a New York City Subway car was built between 1904 and 1905 for the IRT and its successors the NYC Board of Transportation and the New York City Transit Authority. It was the first all steel subway car ordered for New York City.Because of the sliding doors which enclosed the motorman's vestibules from the rest of the car compartment the cars were nicknamed Merry Widows.