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John Nicholaas Rep (born 25 November 1951) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a right winger. He was born in Zaandam. He currently holds the all-time record for FIFA World Cup goals for the Netherlands with 7. He played two European Cup finals and two World Championship finals for The Netherlands (1974 and 1978). A side striker who later became a right winger, he was a fast and skilled dribbler who was well suited to Dutch "total football". Considered as one of the best Dutch players and he is regarded as one of the greatest wingers in 1970s.

Club career

Rep made his debut for Ajax on 29 August 1971. He earned his  'Goudhaantje (Goldcrest)' due to his ability to score decisive goals. During the return match for the Intercontinental Cup against Independiente in 1972 he scored two of the three Ajax goals. In 1973 he scored the decisive 1-0 in the European Cup I final against Italian Juventus.
In 1975 Rep left Ajax for the Spanish club Valencia CF. Then he was superseded by Tscheu La Ling. He played two seasons at Valencia during which he scored 22 goals. The next step in his career took Rep to France. He played two seasons for SC Bastia (33 goals) and four seasons for AS Saint-Etienne (44 goals). He returned to the Dutch league in 1983 to play for PEC Zwolle, Feyenoord before ending his professional player career at HFC Haarlem.

International career

Dutch international from 1973 to 1981, a period in which he collected 42 appearances and scored 12 goals. Rep together with other players such as Johan Cruijff, Ruud Krol, Johan Neeskens and Rob Rensenbrink formed the backbone of the Dutch national team which in that period was runner-up in the world twice consecutively (in Germany 1974 and in Argentina 1978) and third during UEFA Euro 1976.
At the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, Holland is without the champion Cruijff so the three stars Johnny Rep, Johan Neeskens and Rob Rensenbrink are loaded with more responsibility. But despite this, the three thanks above all to the contribution of the van de Kerkhof twins, Arie Haan and Ernie Brandts dragged the Dutch national team to the final. Rep plays all the matches, earns two penalties and scores three goals: he scores with a long shot in the 3-2 defeat against Scotland and scores twice in the 5-1 win against Austria, both goals from an assist from Rensenbrink. With the three goals scored in this edition Rep becomes the Dutchman to have scored the most goals in the final stages of the World Cup: seven goals
. The Netherlands loses the final again (a final characterized by a refereeing harbinger of controversy given the numerous bookings for the oranjes) this time 3-1 after extra time against Argentina and the various attempts by the Rep and his teammates to seek victory yes they break against Ubaldo Fillol, on a day of grace.
Honours

Ajax

 Eredivisie: 1971–72, 1972–73
 European Cup: 1971–72, 1972–73
 European Super Cup: 1972, 1973
 Intercontinental Cup: 1972

Bastia

 UEFA Cup runner-up: 1978

Saint-Étienne

 French League Championship: 1980–81

Netherlands

 FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1974, 1978
 UEFA European Championship third place: 1976
 
Individual

 French Division 1 Foreign Player of the Year: 1977–78

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Steve Sidwell (born 14 December 1982) is an English football player. He plays for Aston Villa.

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Nathan Delfouneso (born 2 February 1991 in Tyseley, Birmingham) is an English footballer who plays for Aston Villa as a striker.

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The Kingdom of Croatia was a nation in modern day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina that existed in the Middle Ages, specifically from 925 to 1102. It was created in 925 when the Duchy of Croatia became a kingdom, and stopped existing in 1102 when it entered into a personal union with Hungary.

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Kingdom of Croatia may refer to:

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Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor. He is of Irish and French descent. He is a Roman Catholic. He was in the movie "The Wrestler". He also appeared at WrestleMania and had an encounter with Chris Jericho. He also played the voice of Jericho in the Driver 2 video game.

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Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian, actor and singer, notable for his long-running television programme The Benny Hill Show.

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Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford (October 21, 1928 – October 8, 2020) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who spent his entire 18-year career with the New York Yankees. He was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1974.

Ford died on October 8, 2020, at his home in Lake Success, New York from dementia-related problems at the age of 91.

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Cassandra "Cass" Fox (born 24 December 1982) is a musical artist from England. She is best known for co-writing and singing on the 2001 hit single "Touch Me" which she produced with Rui Da Silva.

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WGME-13 is a local television station from Portland, Maine. CBS is shown on it. It also has local news. Kiley Bennett and Kim Block are two of the news team. Sarah Long and Charlie Lopresti do the weather.

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Sugar Island is an island on Moosehead Lake in Maine.

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The brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) is a timid but dangerous spider that lives in North America.

Description

Name 
The scientific name of the spider Loxosceles reclusa comes from words that mean "slanted leg recluse". The "slanted leg" part comes from the fact that these spiders have their legs touching the ground at an angle instead of straight up and down. The "recluse" part is because this spider is very shy and runs away from humans.

Appearance 
The brown recluse spider can be light brown, dark brown, or even gray. Sometimes it is called the violin spider since its head has a darker mark on it that looks like a violin. Not including its legs, it can grow to about  long. They have six eyes, which is an unusual number of eyes for a spider.
Habitat 
Brown recluse spiders only live in the United States. Spiders living in the south west part of the U.S. live in the woods, and spiders in the north east part live inside houses. Brown recluse spiders like dry, dark areas that have good hiding places. Wild brown recluse spiders live in hollowed rotting tree trunks and logs. Brown recluses that live in houses usually like garages, basements, and attics. These are places where people are less likely to bother them, and they have lots of good hiding places, like cardboard boxes.
Sometimes, people mail boxes without checking them first for spiders. Brown recluses can hide inside these boxes and might make their home wherever the package is opened. However, spider experts have found brown recluses sent through the mail rarely start a new colony in their new home, partly because there are no other brown recluses for them to mate with. Sometimes brown recluses sent through the mail set up colonies in warehouses. However, they do not move very far from their colony, which is usually not well-established in the new place.

Food
Brown recluse spiders are insectivores. They eat soft-bodied insects (like moths or flies) and other spiders. They are cannibals and will not hesitate to eat each other. When mating, a female brown recluse will try to eat the male.

When preying, the brown recluse slowly creeps toward its prey. Once it is close enough, it pounces on the prey and sinks its fangs into the prey. Its fangs contain a deadly venom that kills the prey very quickly.
Brown recluses can go without food or water for a very long time. Some brown recluses can go for five seasons with no food or water.

Behavior
Brown recluse spiders are hunting spiders, so they spend most of the time on the ground. They hide during the daytime and sleep, and at night they come out to hunt. They usually do not climb unless they are running from something. They can walk upside-down, but most brown recluses walking on ceilings have probably come from the upstairs floor. The blood cannot flow through their legs while they walk, so they must stop every few seconds to allow the blood to flow.

Brown recluses are very good at survival. They can go without food or water for more than a year. They are also very good at surviving in people's homes during cold winters. If they get their leg caught in something, such as a crack or a predator's mouth, they can drop the leg. The spider can still walk around with only four legs, as long as there is still one leg on each side.
Because these spiders are so good at surviving in hard times, it is very hard to get rid of them. Bug sprays and pest killers usually are not good for killing them, except for some kinds that are against the law to use. A spider that has been sprayed might even become vicious.

Brown recluse spiders are afraid of people, and usually if they see one they stand still. If the person chases the brown recluse, it will most often run and hide. Even though brown recluse spiders are scared of people, it is a bad idea to try to touch one, because their bite can be very dangerous.
Brown recluses will normally only bite a person if the person is touching the spider or if the spider is stuck between the person and something else. Most brown recluse bites happen when someone puts on clothes that have a brown recluse spider living inside of them. For people who have brown recluses living in their house, it is a good idea to shake out any clothes that have been on the floor for a few days before putting them on. These people should also be careful when walking around in attics, basements, or dark parts of the house with no shoes on. Wearing socks or gloves helps, because the spiders have very short fangs. It is very common for people living with brown recluses to never see the spiders and never be bitten, and good habits can help make sure no one is bitten.

Danger and myth
Danger and myth

Brown recluse spiders have been feared since they were discovered in 1940, and people will often take drastic approaches to rid their homes of these spiders. Spider experts noticed that the bite of a brown recluse could sometimes lead to a terrible infection called loxoscelism (necrosis due to the bite of a recluse spider). Sometimes the necrosis becomes fatal, but these fatal bites are actually very rare, and most bites from brown recluses are no more harmful than a normal spider bite. The spider's bite is most dangerous for people who are young or overweight.
Very little is known about the venom of the brown recluse, and spider venom experts have been looking for a long time for ways to effectively tell whether a brown recluse has bitten a patient as well as an antidote for its venom.

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4 Strings is a Dutch techno music group with a female lead singer. "Diving" is one of their most popular songs. Believe is one of their albums.

Discography

Albums 
 2003 - Believe
 2004 - Let It Rain
 2006 - Mainline

Singles

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 British-American musical crime horror movie directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award–winning 1979 musical thriller about a serial killer in 19th century London.

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Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove (March 6, 1900 – May 22, 1975) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.

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Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez (November 26, 1908 – February 17, 1989) was a
Mexican-American left-handed major league pitcher who played in the American League for the New York Yankees between 1930 and 1942.

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James Ware (born  June 20, 1957), better known by his ring name Koko B. Ware,  is a semi-retired American professional wrestlerl He  began wrestling in 1979.

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Owen James Hart (May 7, 1965 – May 23, 1999) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He competed for many professional wrestling promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) where he was most well known. While in the WWF, Hart competed under his real name and the ring name The Blue Blazer. He was a member of the Hart wrestling family and was the youngest of 12 children of Stampede Wrestling promoter and WWE Hall of Famer Stu Hart and Helen Hart.

He was a one time WWF European Champion, two time WWF Intercontinental champion, four time WWF Tag Team champion and was the 1994 King of the Ring.
Death 
Hart died on the night of May 23, 1999, while performing a stunt which involved him being lowered to the ring from the rafters, the cape he was wearing with his Blue Blazer gimmick got stuck in the release hatch of the cord he was trying to yank it out but when he did the release hatch released and he fell 78 feet down into the ring landing on the top rope (this happened during the 1999 Over the Edge.)

The next WWF Raw was a two hour special tribute show to Hart called Raw is Owen, It featured remembrance matches and shoot interviews with fellow wrestlers. They tolled the bell ten times (known as a ten bell salute) in memory of Hart.
In wrestling 
 Finishing moves
 As Owen Hart
 Bridging Northern Lights suplex – During his early career; Hart used it as a signature move from 1994 to 1999
 Missile dropkick – During his early career; Hart used it as a signature move from 1994 to 1999
 Reverse piledriver, sometimes while Hart was kneeling – 1997–1999
 Sharpshooter
 As The Blue Blazer
 Diving splash
 Moonsault

 Signature moves
 Belly to belly suplex
 Diving elbow drop
 Diving headbutt
 Dragon sleeper
 Gutwrench suplex
 Jackknife pin
 Leg grapevine
 Multiple kick variations
 Leg-feed enzuigiri
 Spinning wheel
 Super

 With Jim Neidhart
 Rocket launcher

 Managers
 Jim Cornette
 Clarence Mason
 Debra
 Bret Hart
 Mr. Fuji

 Nicknames
 "The Rocket"
 "The King of Harts"
 "The Black Hart"
 "The Lone Hart"
 "The Two-Time Slammy Award Winner"

Entrance themes
"Hallucination" by Carlos Alomar (NJPW; 1987–1991)
"High Energy" by Jim Johnston (1992–1997)
"Enough Is Enough"(Black Hart) by Jim Johnston (1997–1999)
Championships
Legends Pro Wrestling
He was inducted into the LPW Hall of Fame on May 28, 2011.

 New Japan Pro Wrestling
 IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Editor's Award (1999)
 Feud of the Year (1994) (vs. Bret Hart)
 Rookie of the Year (1987)
 He was ranked #10 of the 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1994.
 He was ranked #66 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003.
 He was ranked #84 of the 100 best tag teams of the PWI Years with Davey Boy Smith in 2003.

Stampede Wrestling
 Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Championship (1 time) (with Ben Bassarab)
 Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame

 United States Wrestling Association
 USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
World Wrestling Federation
 WWF European Championship (1 time)
 WWF Intercontinental Championship (2 times)
 WWF World Tag Team Championship (4 times) (with Yokozuna (2), The British Bulldog (1), and Jeff Jarrett (1))
 King of the Ring (1994)
 Slammy Award for Squared Circle Shocker (1996)1
 Slammy Award for Best Bow Tie (1997)2

 Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
 5 Star Match (1994) (vs. Bret Hart in a cage match at SummerSlam)
 Best Flying Wrestler (1987, 1988)
 Feud of the Year (1997) (with Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart, Davey Boy Smith, and Brian Pillman vs. Steve Austin)

1The Slammy was awarded to Shawn Michaels for collapsing but Hart accepted the award for himself instead.

2After he presented the Award, Hart did not award it to any of the possible candidates and instead stole it for himself.

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Kenneth Wayne Shamrock (born Kenneth Wayne Kilpatrick on February 11, 1964) is an American mixed martial arts fighter and UFC Hall of Famer. He was also a professional wrestler back in the WWF.

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Cage match or steel cage match is a match in wrestling. The player must climb at the top and out of the cage in order to win the match.

Professional wrestling

en:Professional wrestling match types#Cages
Lake McDonald is the largest lake in Glacier National Park. It is in Flathead County, Montana.

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Resident Evil 4, known in Japan as , is a survival horror third-person shooter video game developed by Production Studio 4 and published by multiple publishers, including Capcom, Ubisoft and Nintendo of Australia. It is the sixth game in the Resident Evil series.

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In 2003 he became the first recipient of the United States Library of Congress’s $1 million John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences, given in fields where there are no Nobel Prizes. In announcing the prize, James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress, noted not only Mr. Kolakowski's scholarship but also his “demonstrable importance to major political events in his own time,” adding that “his voice was fundamental for the fate of Poland, and influential in Europe as a whole.”  His work inspired the Solidarity movement in Poland.
In his younger days he was a communist. But he could see the problems with the Soviet type of speech control. In 72 definitions of What Socialism is not he said "Socialism is not: a society in which one man is in trouble for saying what he thinks, while another is well-off because he does not say what he has on his mind; a society in which a man lives better if he doesn't have any thoughts of his own at all; a state which has more spies than nurses and more people in prison than in hospital; a state in which the philosophers and writers always say the same as the generals and ministers – but always after they've said it…".

Selected works 
Main currents of Marxism. (1978) 2005. 3 vols, New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-32943-8
Modernity on endless trial. 1990.  University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-45046-9;  ISBN 978-0-226-45045-2
Freedom, fame, lying, and betrayal: essays on everyday life. 1999. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-140-28044-9

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John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Catholic University of Lublin, Lat. Universitas Catholica Lublinensis Ioannis Pauli II) - a private Catholic university in Lublin, with full rights of public school. Founded in 1918, to 1928 under the name University of Lublin, from October 16 2005, on the basis of a resolution approved by the  Senate of the Polish Episcopate, the University changed its name to the Catholic University of Lublin John Paul II. In 1938 years of KUL has the right to award degrees.

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Nazarene is a word used to describe Jesus. It comes from Nazarenos, a word used only in the Greek language original of the Gospel of Mark.

Jesus
Madawaska is a town on the border of Maine and Canada. It is in Aroostook County.

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Grawp is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling. He is the giant half-brother of Hagrid. Grawp and Hagrid were born of the same mother, the giantess Fridwulfa. Hagrid's father was a wizard but Grawp's father was a giant. Grawp refers to Hagrid by the name "Hagger" and Hermione as "Hermy". He was said to be rather small compared to the other giants. He seemed to likes pink, the reason he was provoked when he saw Hermione's pink shirt. He participated in the Battle of Hogwarts and survived.

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For the son of Nicholas II, see Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

Alexei Petrovich Romanov () ( – ), was a Russian Tsarevich. He was born in Moscow, the son of Tsar Peter I and his first wife Eudoxia Lopukhina.

1690 births
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Monty Kip Sopp (born November 11, 1963 in Orlando, Florida) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and wrestles under the ring name Billy Gunn. He is one-third of the current AEW World Trios Champions with Max Caster and Anthony Bowens.

He is best known for his time with WWE where he competed under the ring name Billy Gunn. He also worked as a trainer for WWE's developmental territory NXT. He has also wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

Gunn was also known for being a tag team wrestler and was a part of The Smokin' Gunns with on-screen brother Bart Gunn, the New Age Outlaws with Road Dogg, Billy and Chuck with Chuck and D-Generation X.

His sons Austin and Colten Gunn also wrestle in AEW in the tag team The Gunns.

Career

All Elite Wrestling

At All In, Gunn and The Acclaimed would defeat the House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) to win the AEW World Trios Championship. This was Gunn's first championship in AEW.
Championships
Gunn held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
All Elite Wrestling
 AEW World Trios Championship (1 time, current) (with Max Caster and Anthony Bowens)
American Pro Wrestling Alliance
APWA American Championship (one time)
Bad Boys of Wrestling Federation
BBFW Aruba Championship (one time, current)
International Wrestling Federation
IWF Tag Team Championship (two times) (with Brett Colt)
Legends Pro Wrestling
XWF/LPW Hall of Fame (August 18, 2007)
Maryland Championship Wrestling
MCW Tag Team Championship (one time) (with B.G. James)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked #39 of the best 500 singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 1999
PWI Tag Team of the Year (1998) (with Road Dogg)
PWI Tag Team of the Year (2002) (with Chuck)
He was ranked #43 of the Top 100 Tag Teams of the PWI Years in 2003 (with Road Dogg)
TWA Powerhouse
TWA Tag Team Championship (one time) (with B.G. James)
World Pro Wrestling
WPW World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment
WWF Hardcore Championship (two times)
WWF Intercontinental Championship (one time)
WWE Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Road Dogg)
WWF/E World Tag Team Championship (ten times) (with Bart Gunn (3), Road Dogg (6) and Chuck (2))
King of the Ring (1999)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Worst Worked Match of the Year (2006) (TNA Reverse Battle Royal on TNA Impact!)
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A meander is a curve in a river. Meanders form a snake-like pattern as the river flows across a fairly flat valley floor. The position of the curves changes over time. Meanders were named for a river in Anatolia. 

A river rarely flows in a straight line: it bends around because it drops sediment where it flows most slowly. There are areas of slower and faster water movement. The river flows faster on the outside of a curve, and the fast water erodes the outside bends of a river channel by hydraulic action and abrasion.  This forms a river cliff.  The river flows more slowly on the inside of the river beach.  The slower water drops sediment.  

Continuous erosion on the outer bank and deposition on the inner bank will expand the bend in the river. This is called a meander.  Over time, meanders become larger and more visible. 

Eventually meanders turn into oxbow lakes when two outside bends erode together making a shorter route for the water.

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is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Miwa Ueda. It was published in Japan by Kodansha in Bessatsu Friend from 1998 to 2003 and collected in 18 volumes. The series was adapted as a Taiwanese drama in 2002 and Japanese animated television series in 2005. 

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The Thames Valley is a term that is used for the English counties and towns along the course of the River Thames. It includes parts of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, North Hampshire and West London.

Economy
The Thames Valley region is one of the wealthiest regions in the European Union. It has good communications, a well educated work force, is near to London, and has strong local employers. 

In the twentieth century, new industries replaced the old ones. That were primarily information and communications technology and life sciences.

Tourism 
The Thames Valley region is an important tourist destination in the United Kingdom, both for domestic and international tourists. Some major attractions include:

The City of Oxford
Windsor Castle

Major towns and cities 

 High Wycombe
 Maidenhead
 Oxford
 Reading

Universities 

Oxford University
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The Manchukuo yuan was the money used in the Empire of Manchukuo, from June 1932 until August 1945. 

The Manchukuo yuan would buy 24 grams of silver. The yuan was instead of the Chinese tael. The tael was common and was in use in Manchuria. A tael would buy about 40 grams of silver.

History 
The Manchukuo yuan would buy 24 grams of silver in 1932. The price of silver changed and the yuan would not buy 24 grams of silver. To show that the yuan had value it was made equal to Japanese money. The Japanese money was called the yen. In 1940 the Manchukuo yuan was being used to measure Manchukuo exports and imports to America, Germany and Japan.

 
The paper money was in five values in 1932. Each piece of paper money is called a note. There was a one hundred yuan note, a ten yuan note, a five yuan note, a one yuan note and a small value note. A new 1000 yuan note was made in 1944.
The paper money or notes had pictures of Chinese emperors printed on them. The money was first made in Japan. Later they were made by the Bank in the Manchukuo capital of Hsinking (Hsinking is now called Changchun). 

The Yuan was subdivided into 10 chiao, 100 fen or 1000 li. Coins were made that were worth 5 li and bigger values. The largest value coin was 10 fen.

In 1944 and 1945, Manchukuo made coins of red or brown cardboard. These may be unique as to coining material, but they are not particularly scarce.

On January 1946 Manchukuo Yuan was replaced. The Chinese allowed people to swap 1 Manchukuo for a new type of money called a North-Eastern Yuan. In 1948 these new yuan could be swapped by a Gold Yuan. One Gold Yuan cost 150,000 North Eastern Yuans.

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Alonzo Harding Mourning, Jr. (born February 8, 1970, in Chesapeake, Virginia) is a retired American professional basketball player who played most of his 16-year NBA career for the Miami Heat. He played college basketball at Georgetown University before playing in the NBA.

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Independence Day is an American science fiction action movie about two men trying to stop aliens from taking over the world. It stars Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Will Smith.

It was followed by Independence Day: Resurgence, which was released on June 24, 2016.

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"Love's Philosophy" is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1820.

Original text

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the Ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
in one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?--

See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

19th-century British poems
1820s works
Anfernee Deon "Penny" Hardaway (born July 18, 1971, in Memphis, Tennessee) is a former American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was in the United States basketball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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Timothy Duane "Tim" Hardaway (born September 1, 1966) is a retired American basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Ben Camey Wallace (born September 10, 1974) is a former American basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association with the Detroit Pistons. He had his picture on the cover of the ESPN 2K5 video game. Nicknamed "Big Ben", he played the center and power forward positions, and is listed at  and .

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Tropical Storm Jerry was a weak tropical storm of the very active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. Even though Jerry was weak, Jerry caused 8 deaths and $40 million in damage. Jerry made landfall in Jupiter, Florida and Dixie County, Florida. Jerry was active with four other cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean: Humberto, Iris, Luis, and Karen. Because there was not much damage, the name Jerry was not retired and was used again in 2001 and 2007, the name will also be used again in 2013.

Meteorological history
A tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on August 9. Over the next week, clouds and other thunderstorms grew near the tropical wave. By August 22 it was upgraded to Tropical Depression Eleven. Tropical Depression Eleven was located just to the north of Cuba at the time. On August 23 it became Tropical Storm Jerry. Jerry had winds at 40 miles per hour, however the minimum pressure was not at the lowest still Jerry weakened back to a depression. The National Hurricane Center did not expect to Tropical Depression Eleven to become a tropical storm because most of the showers and thunderstorms were over land.
Impact
Tropical Storm Jerry killed two people in Florida, three people in South Carolina, and three more in North Carolina. Jerry caused $19 million in damage in Florida, $10 million in South Carolina, and $11 million in North Carolina. In total, Jerry caused $40 million in damage and 8 people to be killed. This was the first time since 1990 that a name starting with the letter "J" was used. It was also only the second time that the name Jerry made been used to name a storm in the Atlantic. Because there was not much damage, the name Jerry was not retired, so it was used again in 2001 and 2007, it will also be used again in 2013.

Related pages
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The MS Jewel of the Seas is a cruise ship belonging to Royal Caribbean's Radiance class.

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 Official website

Cruise ships
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is a company operating cruise ships, headquartered in Miami, Florida. It began in 1966 and currently owns eighteen ships.

Ships
Norwegian Jewel
Norwegian Epic
Norwegian Jade
Norwegian Pearl
Norwegian Sun
Norwegian Joy
Norwegian Gem 
Norwegian Sky
Norwegian Star
Norwegian Spirit
Norwegian Bliss
Norwegian Encore
Norwegian Getaway
Norwegian Breakaway
Norwegian Dawn
Norwegian Escape
Norwegian Prima
Pride Of America 

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Transport in Florida
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean  (born October 17, 1969) is a Haitian rapper, musician, singer, and producer. He is a former member of the hip hop trio the Fugees. Wyclef has sold more than 31 million albums throughout his career, together with his album sales with the Fugees.

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Jeffrey Bruce Atkins (born February 29, 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor signed to The Inc. and Universal Records, formerly of Def Jam Recordings. A Hollis, New York native, Ja Rule has released seven albums. Rule's eighth album is called Renaissance Project. It has not been released yet. He has had a longtime feud with 50 Cent.

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1 Giant Leap is a concept band and media project consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto (Faithless founding member) and Duncan Bridgeman.

Other websites 
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Yusaku Tanioku (born 18 October 1978) is a former Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|1998||rowspan="5"|Ventforet Kofu||Football League||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
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|1999||rowspan="4"|J. League 2||13||0||0||0||0||0||13||0
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|2000||37||1||0||0||0||0||37||1
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|2001||38||1||0||0||2||0||40||1
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|2002||37||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||37||1
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|2003||rowspan="2"|Otsuka Pharmaceuticals||rowspan="2"|Football League||20||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||23||0
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|2004||24||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||24||0
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|2005||Tokushima Vortis||J. League 2||19||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||20||0
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|2006||Sagawa Express Osaka||Football League||19||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||19||0
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|2007||Sagawa Express||Football League||5||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0
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|2008||rowspan="2"|Sagawa Shiga||rowspan="2"|Football League||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0
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|2009||3||0||9||9||colspan="2"|-||3||0
218||3||4||0||2||0||224||3
218||3||4||0||2||0||224||3
|}

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1978 births
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Footballers from Mie Prefecture
Michiharu Otagiri (born 2 September 1978) is a former Japanese football player.

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|1997||rowspan="2"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
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|1998||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
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|1999||Ventforet Kofu||J. League 2||9||0||0||0||2||0||11||0
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|2000||rowspan="4"|Jatco||rowspan="4"|Football League||13||2||3||0||colspan="2"|-||16||2
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|2001||29||1||2||0||colspan="2"|-||31||1
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|2002||17||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||17||1
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|2003||28||4||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||28||4
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|2004||rowspan="4"|YKK AP||rowspan="4"|Football League||19||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||19||0
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|2005||25||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||25||2
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|2006||31||2||3||0||colspan="2"|-||34||2
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|2007||31||3||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||31||3
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|2008||rowspan="2"|Kataller Toyama||rowspan="2"|Football League||10||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||11||0
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|2009||16||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||16||0
228||15||9||0||2||0||239||15
228||15||9||0||2||0||239||15
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Footballers from Toyama Prefecture
Fabrizio Miccoli (born 27 June 1979) is an Italian football player. He plays for Città di Palermo.

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|1996/97||rowspan="2"|Virtus Casarano||rowspan="2"|Serie C1||29||8||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||29||8
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|1997/98||30||11||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||30||11
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|1998/99||rowspan="4"|Ternana||rowspan="4"|Serie B||30||1||2||0||colspan="2"|-||32||1
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|1999/00||33||9||7||0||colspan="2"|-||40||9
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|2000/01||23||7||2||0||colspan="2"|-||25||7
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|2001/02||34||15||4||3||colspan="2"|-||38||18
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|2002/03||Perugia||Serie A||34||9||6||5||2||2||42||16
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|2003/04||rowspan="2"|Juventus||rowspan="2"|Serie A||25||8||6||1||6||1||37||10
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|2004/05||0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
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|2004/05||Fiorentina||Serie A||35||12||4||0||colspan="2"|-||39||12

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|2005/06||rowspan="2"|Benfica||rowspan="2"|Portuguese Liga||17||4||0||0||6||2||23||6
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|2006/07||22||10||0||0||11||1||33||11
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|2007/08||rowspan="3"|Città di Palermo||rowspan="3"|Serie A||22||8||0||0||1||0||23||8
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|2008/09||30||14||1||0||colspan="2"|-||31||14
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364||116||33||9||26||6||423||131
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|2003||5||0
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Club Nacional de Football is a football club which plays in Uruguay.

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788), usually called Buffon, was a French naturalist. He was also a mathematician, cosmologist and encyclopedic author. 

His collected information influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. 

Buffon published 35 volumes of his Histoire naturelle during his lifetime, and nine more were published after his death, for a total of 44 volumes. "Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". p330

Buffon held the position of Intendant (Director) of the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des Plantes; it is the French equivalent of Kew Gardens. The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him.

His work
His work

Natural history
Buffon is best remembered for his Histoire naturelle. "Written in a brilliant style, this work was read ... by every educated person in Europe".p330 It was translated into many different languages, making him one of the most widely read authors of the day, a rival to Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire.

In the opening volumes of the Histoire naturelle Buffon questioned the usefulness of mathematics, criticized Carl Linnaeus's taxonomical approach to natural history, outlined a history of the Earth with little relation to the Biblical account, and proposed a theory of reproduction which ran counter to existing ideas. 

The early volumes were condemned by the Faculty of Theology at the Sorbonne. Buffon published a retraction, but he continued publishing the offending volumes without any change.
Buffon noted that despite similar environments, different regions of the world have distinct plants and animals. This  observation, later known as Buffon's Law, may be the first principle of biogeography.

Common descent 
Buffon understood the idea of common descent, and discussed it a number of times. This does not mean he believed in it. Probably he did not, but he discussed it fairly openly on a number of occasions. Interpreting his ideas is not simple, for he returned to topics many times in the course of his work.
"...all the animals might be regarded as constituting but a single family... one could say... that the ape is of the family of man... that man and ape have a common origin: that, in fact, all the families, among plants as well as animals, have come from a common stock, and that all animals are descended from a single animal, from which have sprung in the course of time... all other races of animals"...
"But this is by no means a proper representation of nature. We are assured by the authority of revelation that... the first pair of every species issued fully formed from the hands of the Creator".p332 

In volume 14 he argued that all the world's quadrupeds had developed from an original set of just thirty-eight quadrupeds. On this basis, he is sometimes considered a "transformist" and a precursor of Darwin.

Earth science 
In Les époques de la nature (1778) Buffon discussed the origins of the solar system, speculating that the planets had been created by a comet's collision with the sun.
He also suggested that the earth originated much earlier than the 4004 BC of Archbishop James Ussher. Basing his figures on the cooling rate of iron tested at his Laboratory le Petit Fontenet at Montbard, he calculated that the age of the earth was 75,000 years. Once again, his ideas were condemned by the Sorbonne, and again he issued a retraction to avoid further problems.

Relevance to modern biology 
Charles Darwin wrote in his preliminary historical sketch added to the third edition of On the Origin of Species: "Passing over... Buffon, with whose writings I am not familiar." Then, from the fourth edition onwards, he amended this to say that "the first author who in modern times has treated it [evolution] in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details."
The paradox of Buffon is that, according to Ernst Mayr:
He was not an evolutionist, yet he was the father of evolutionism. He was the first person to discuss a large number of evolutionary problems, problems that before Buffon had not been raised by anybody.... he brought them to the attention of the scientific world.
Except for Aristotle and Darwin, no other student of organisms [whole animals and plants] has had as far-reaching an influence.

He brought the idea of evolution into the realm of science.
He developed a concept of the "unity of type," a precursor of comparative anatomy.
More than anyone else, he was responsible for the acceptance of a long-time scale for the history of the earth.
He was the founder of biogeography.
And yet, he hindered evolution by his frequent endorsement of the immutability of species. He provided a criterion of species, fertility among members of a species, that was thought impregnable.

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Malcolm George "Malky" Mackay (born 19 February 1972, in Bellshill) is a Scottish football manager and former player.  He is the manager of Cardiff City.  Mackay began his playing career in Scottish football, with Queen's Park and Celtic.  He joined English side Norwich City in 1998. He also played in the Premier League with Norwich, West Ham and finally Watford. He retired as a player in 2008.

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The Postal Service is an American indie pop band. Their songs include "This Place Is A Prison" from their album "Give Up".

Discography
Studio albums
 Give Up (2003)

Other websites

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Toryglen is a small district in Glasgow, Scotland.  There are about 7,000 people who live in the district.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds grew up this area.

Glasgow
In chemistry, a nitride is a compound of nitrogen with a less electronegative element, attached together in a specific way. Nitrides are a large class of compounds with a wide range of properties and applications.

Most of the names for nitrides follow a simple pattern: the name of the element attached to the nitrogen, then "nitride". So, GaN would be gallium nitride.

There are some exceptions, however, for the compounds that has had a usual name before. For example, NH3 is not called hydrogen nitride, even if it is the most simple of this class of molecules, but it is still commonly called ammonia.

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Rail gauge is the distance from the inside of one rail on a railroad track to the inside of the other. 
Most tracks use a standard gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft, 8 1/2 in). Wider gauges are called broad gauge (1676mm), smaller gauges are called narrow gauge(762mm or 610mm).  
Broad gauge may be used where the track needs to have big things moving on it.  Narrow gauge, such as metre gauge (1000mm), is used to build railroads for less money, because the smaller track costs less.  Places where different gauges meet are called break of gauge.

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Skittles are a type of sugar candy printed with the letter "S". They were created in 1974 by the Wrigley Company in England.

Background 

Skittles came to America in 1979. The Skittles' slogan "taste the rainbow" came from New York by a company called  D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles.

Description 
Skittles is a type of chewy fruit-flavored candy. They have a hard outside with a chewy inside and an "s" on one side. Skittles come in many flavors. The original flavors were lime, lemon, grape, orange, and cherry.