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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming%20Moe%27s

Flaming Moe's

"Flaming Moe's" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons third season. It was first shown on the Fox network in the United States on November 21, 1991. In this episode, Homer tells Moe Szyslak of a secret alcoholic cocktail that has cough syrup and fire that he calls "Flaming Homer". Moe steals the recipe from Homer, renames the drink the "Flaming Moe" and begins selling it at his tavern. The drink is a success and boosts business, but Homer is angry at Moe for his greediness and seeks revenge.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon

Bon

Bon, also spelled Bon, is a religion of Tibet. The modern form of Bon has its roots in the late 900s and 1000s CE, when the first Bon monasteries were started in Tibet. There are many teachings in Bon that are similar to Buddhist teachings, and so people who study Bon disagree whether it should be called a kind of Buddhism or not. Followers of Bon believe that it was founded by a teacher called Tonpa Shenrab who lived many years ago in a land called Tazig. Some people think that Tazig refers to Persia, Central Asia, or the area around Mount Kailash in western Tibet. According to Tibetans, Bon was popular in Tibet before Buddhism became the main religion of Tibet, but some non-Tibetans like Per Kvoerne say there isn't much connection between religion in Tibet before Buddhism and the living tradition of Bon. After the Chinese army sent troops to Tibet in 1959, some followers of Bon were forced to leave Tibet and many Bon monasteries and temples were shut down. Many of the followers of Bon who left Tibet started Bon centers in cities around the world. Today, most people who believe in Bon are ethnic Tibetans, but a small number of non-Tibetans have started to believe in Bon too. The yungdrung, or left-facing swastika, is a sacred symbol in Bon, and the living tradition of Bon is sometimes called Yungdrung Bon, meaning "eternal Bon" in Tibetan. The yungdrung, like the vajra in Tibetan Buddhism, represents eternity because it is said that the yungdrung cannot be destroyed and lasts forever. Tibetan Buddhists used to write many bad things about Bon, arguing that Bon had stolen most of its teachings from Buddhism, a view that people studying Bon from Europe and North America sometimes agreed with. The fourteenth Dalai Lama, who is seen as a religious leader by most Tibetans, said that Bon is as much part of Tibetan religion as Buddhism, encouraging people to treat Bon with respect. Followers of Bon are called Bonpos. Bonpos believe in many gods. These gods include the creator god, Sangpo Bumtri, the god of compassion Shenlha Okar, the goddess of compassion Sherab Chamma, and the founder of Bon Tonpa Shenrab.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelham%20Humfrey

Pelham Humfrey

Pelham Humfrey (also: Humphrey) (born London 1647; died Windsor 14 July 1674) was an English composer in the Baroque period. Although he died at the age of 26 he had an important influence on English composers such as William Turner and Henry Purcell. He lived at the time of the Restoration, when England was ruled by a king once more after two decades of republican rule, during which music had not been allowed in churches. Life We do not know much detail about his early life. He seems to have been a choirboy in the Chapel Royal by 1660. During this time he was obviously becoming a very gifted composer. Other boys in the choir included John Blow and William Turner. As a young man he travelled to France where he heard music by French composers such as Lully and Italians such as Carissimi. This helped him to form his own style. He became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He wrote some fine anthems, although the diarist Samuel Pepys thought that he was showing off. This may be because Pepys did not like the new kind of music. He married the daughter of his old choir master Henry Cooke. He became Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. This meant that he was in charge of the children in the king's chapel choir. He was also a court composer. He became ill and died at the age of 26. He was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. His music Humfrey composed a lot of music during his very short life. It helped to form the English Baroque style. He mostly wrote church music, but he also wrote some music for the theatre. Humfrey liked to compose music which excited people's emotions. Some of his melodies jump around in unexpected ways. There is a lot of chromaticism. Some of his best anthems include: O Lord my God, By the waters of Babylon and Like as the hart. He wrote 27 songs. Five of them are religious songs, and they are some of the best songs of that time.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Barry

Peter Barry

Peter Barry (10 August 1928 - 26 August 2016) was an Irish politician and businessman. He was from Cork city. He was a member of Fine Gael. He was a Teachta Dala (TD; member of parliament) from 1969 to 1997, and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1987. He helped negotiate the Anglo-Irish Agreement. In 1987, he served for a short time as Tanaiste (deputy prime minister).

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Dunn

Kevin Dunn

Kevin Dunn (born August 24, 1956) is an American actor who has played in many supporting roles. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He has been in movies since the 1980s. He has also been in many television roles. Dunn was in the movie Mississippi Burning, the television show Forever Knight, and the Netflix show The Umbrella Academy.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirzapur%20division

Mirzapur division

Mirzapur () is a division of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Everingham

Paul Everingham

Paul Anthony Edward Everingham (born 4 February 1943) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Country Liberal Party. He was the head of government of the Northern Territory from 1977 to 1984. He served as the second and last Majority Leader (1977-1978) and the first Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 1978 to 1984. He also served as a member of the national parliament for the Northern Territory from 1984 to 1987. Everingham was born in Brisbane, Queensland.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20Tunis%20bombing

2015 Tunis bombing

On 24 November 2015, a bus carrying Tunisian presidential guards exploded, killing 12, on a principal road in Tunis. After the attack, President Beji Caid Essebsi issued a state of emergency in Tunisia. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomber, who killed himself in the attack, was identified as Houssem Abdelli.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny%20Burgess

Sonny Burgess

Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess (May 28, 1929 - August 18, 2017) was an American rockabilly guitarist and singer. He was born in Newport, Arkansas. He was known for working with fellow country musician D. J. Fontana. He gained popularity in Europe during most of his career. Burgess was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame of Europe in 1999. Burgess died of complications from a fall in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 18, 2017 at the age of 88.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary%20zoning

Exclusionary zoning

Exclusionary zoning is the use of zoning laws to exclude certain types of people from a community. Exclusionary zoning laws began to be used in the United States in the late 19th century. Exclusionary zoning rules are still used today across the country. A common type of exclusionary zoning rule is a minimum lot size rule. This type of rule makes it hard for poor families to build a house on a small lot that they could afford. Exclusionary zoning rules make it hard for poor families to find housing in a community.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunda%2C%20South%20Dakota

Nunda, South Dakota

Nunda is a town in the eastern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota. It is located in Lake County, and 43 people lived there at the 2010 census. Nunda was founded in 1906.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo

Rondo

In music a rondo is a piece of music which has one main theme, which is heard several times, and other musical ideas in between each time. If we give the main theme a label "A" and the other musical ideas "B", "C", "D" etc. then the form of a rondo can be described as ABACADA. The sections in between the main "A" section are called "episodes". Rondos can vary in length, e.g. a rondo might be ABACADAEAFA. Each episode is normally in a different key from the main key. The word "rondo" is sometimes given the French spelling: rondeau. Composers from the Baroque period onwards often write movements which are in rondo form. In the Classical music period the last movement of a symphony or sonata is very often a rondo. Rondos are normally fast and lively. They are a good way of finishing a long piece of music with something that is happy. The word "rondo" is related to the word "ritornello" meaning: something that keeps returning. Rondo form is sometimes combined with sonata form to make something which is called "sonata rondo form". In sonata rondo form the second tune is treated like the second subject in sonata form where it comes back in the main key the second time.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99erov

Přerov

Prerov () is a city in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the Prerov District. The city is about southeast of Olomouc and has about 42,000 inhabitants.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Field%20%28movie%29

The Field (movie)

The Field is a 1990 Irish drama movie directed by Jim Sheridan and was based on the 1965 play of the same name by John B. Keane. It stars Richard Harris (in his Oscar nominated role), John Hurt, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty, Brenda Fricker, Brendan Gleeson, Malachy McCourt, Tom Berenger.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southminster

Southminster

Southminster is a town and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 4021 people living in Southminster.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loranz%C3%A8

Loranzè

Loranze is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20illness

Terminal illness

Terminal illness is a term used to describe an illness which cannot be cured and will almost definitely end in the death of the patient. The term is mostly used for progressive diseases such as cancer or advanced heart disease. Someone who has a terminal illness may be described as a terminal patient or as being terminally ill. Usually a patient is called "terminally ill" when they are not expected to live more than 6 months. Medical conditions such as AIDS are not called terminal illnesses because the patient may live for many years before eventually dying of the illness. Very often, terminally ill patients are given palliative care to give them a better quality of life. Sometimes, they go to a hospice to be looked after.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meurc%C3%A9

Meurcé

Meurce is a commune. It is in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in west France.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakasa%20Province

Wakasa Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukui Prefecture on the island of Honshu. It was also known as or . The province had borders with Echizen, Omi, Tamba, Tango, and Yamashiro Provinces. The ancient capital city of the province was Obama. History In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Wakasa Province were reformed in the 1870s. Shrines and Temples Wakasahiko jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Wakasa.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Watts

Alan Watts

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 - 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher of religion. He spent most of his life in the United States. He became well-known for explaining the philosophy of Zen to a Western audience.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoign%C3%A9

Thoigné

Thoigne is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento%2C%20Kentucky

Sacramento, Kentucky

Sacramento is a city of Kentucky in the United States.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildegarda%20Taffra

Ildegarda Taffra

Ildegarda Taffra (June 30, 1934 - December 7, 2020) was an Italian cross-country skier. She competed in the 1950s. She was born in Tarvisio. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she finished eighth in the 3 x 5 km relay at Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. Taffra also competed in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, but did not finish. Taffra died in Trieste on 7 December 2020, aged 86.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned%20Wertimer

Ned Wertimer

Ned Wertimer (October 27, 1923 - January 2, 2013) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Ralph Hart in the television sitcom The Jeffersons. Wertimer was born on October 27, 1923 in Buffalo, New York. He studied at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He was married to Skyne Uku from the 1960s until his death in 2013. In November 2012, Wertimer fell in his home in Burbank, California. He died in the hospital in Los Angeles, California from his injuries in January 2, 2013, aged 89.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall%20of%20Kabul

Fall of Kabul

Fall of Kabul is an event where Kabul is captured. Some of these include: Battle of Kabul (1992-1996), the capture of Kabul by the Taliban in 1996 Fall of Kabul (2001), the capture of Kabul by the Northern Alliance in 2001, as a part of the United States invasion of Afghanistan Fall of Kabul (2021), the recapture of Kabul by the Taliban in 2021

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Klein%20%28fashion%20designer%29

Calvin Klein (fashion designer)

Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer. He launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry. Early life Klein was born to a Jewish family in The Bronx, New York. He studied fashion in New York City and apprenticed for a suit manufacturer. In 1968, he launched his first company with a childhood friend, Barry K. Schwartz. In 1974, a tight-fitting signature jeans designed by Klein went on to gross 200,000 US Dollars in their first week of sales. He also became the first designer to receive outstanding design in men's and women's wear award from the CFDA award show in the same year.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20and%20towns%20in%20Russia%20by%20population

List of cities and towns in Russia by population

This is a list of cities and towns in Russia with a population of over 50,000 at the 2021 census. These numbers are city proper populations, instead of urban area or metro area populations. This list includes the federal city of Sevastopol and cities and towns in the Republic of Crimea, which are de facto part of Russia but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine. The cities and towns in the federal cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg are not on the list because they were not part of the 2021 census. List Cities in bold are the capital city of their federal subject. Three capitals are too small to make the list: Naryan-Mar (pop. 23,399), Magas (pop. 15,271), and Anadyr (pop. 13,202). Pyatigorsk is the administrative centre of North Caucasian Federal District but not of any federal subject.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom%20%28band%29

Venom (band)

Venom are a black metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The band was formed in 1979. Venom is considered to be (one of) the first Black Metal bands.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rise%20and%20Fall%20of%20Ziggy%20Stardust%20and%20the%20Spiders%20from%20Mars

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (also known as Ziggy Stardust) is a concept album by British musician David Bowie, published in 1972. The album reached 5th place in British charts and 75th in American Billboard charts. A film of the same name was directed by Donn Allan Pennibaker in 1973. The album ranks 35th place in the Rolling Stone list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector

Prince-elector

Prince-electors () were the group of rulers of German countries which elected the Holy Roman Emperor. In English they were usually called "Electors" and included the Elector of Brandenburg, who also began ruling as King of Prussia, and the Electors of Hanover, who were also kings of Great Britain after 1714.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takumi%20Horiike

Takumi Horiike

is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team. Biography Horiike was educated at, and played for, Shimizu Higashi High School. He won the national high school championship with his teammates, including Katsumi Oenoki and Kenta Hasegawa. He continued his study and football at Juntendo University. After graduating in 1988, he joined the Japan Soccer League team of Yomiuri. He played as a defensive midfielder, then as centre back, partnered with Hisashi Kato. When Japan's first professional league, the J1 League, started, Shimizu S-Pulse was founded in his local city. He joined the club in 1992 and re-united with his high school teammates Oenoki and Hasegawa. His position was a right side-back. After the end of the inaugural season, he was chosen as a member of the Best Eleven in 1993. He was transferred to Cerezo Osaka in 1998 and came back to Shimizu briefly in 1999 before resigning. On August 1, 1986, when Horiike was a Juntendo University student, he debuted for the Japan national team against Malaysia. He was mainly a right side-back for the national team. He was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 Asian Cup and he played 4 matches in the competition. Under national coach Hans Ooft, Japan progressed to the Final round at 1994 World Cup qualification. Horiike was on the pitch when Japan's hope to play in the finals was dashed by an injury-time Iraqi equaliser in the last qualifier, the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the "Agony of Doha" (dohanoBei Ju ). He played 58 matches and scored 2 goals for the Japan until 1995.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax

Parallax

Parallax is the perceived change in position of an object seen from two different places. In astronomy, annual parallax is the only direct way to measure distance to stars outside the solar system. In essence, parallax is the perceived shifting phenomenon which occurs when an object is viewed from different positions. It is measured by the angle between two lines of observation. Nearby objects have a larger parallax than more distant objects when observed from identical positions, so parallax can be used to determine distances. Astronomers use the principle of parallax to measure distances to celestial objects including to the Moon, the Sun, and to stars beyond the Solar System. Here, the term "parallax" is the angle between two sight-lines to the star. Astronomical measurement of position are taken at different times of the year. Since the Earth's orbit is known exactly, the distance from position 1 to position 2 can be worked out. The angle from the horizon to the object can be measured precisely. This gives a triangle whose baseline and angles are known accurately. From the triangle, the distance is calculated by trigonometry and expressed in parsecs. The method only fails with objects which are so distant that the earth's orbit is too small to get a large enough parallax angle to measure accurately. This distance is about 100 light-years. Astronomers have invented various ways to solve this problem, though none are so accurate as the parallax method is for relatively nearby objects. This provides a basis for the cosmic distance ladder of techniques to calculate greater distances. From 1989 to 1993 the Hipparcos satellite took measurements for over 100,000 nearby stars. Gaia (spacecraft) is intended to make similar measurements of about a Billion stars. Many animals, including humans, have two eyes which provide depth perception; this is called stereopsis. Because the two eyes are at different places on the head, this gives the basis for an automatic sense of distance. We perceive this as a normal 3-D scene.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Bergensten

Jens Bergensten

Jens Peder Bergensten (born 18 May 1979), also known as Jeb, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the lead designer of Minecraft. In 2013, he and Markus Persson was named as one of Time 100 most influential people in the world. He was the co-developer in 2010. In 2011, he became the lead designer in 2011. He got full control in 2014 when Persson left the company.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Ridge%2C%20California

Kelly Ridge, California

Kelly Ridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Butte County, northern California. As of the 2020 census, 3,006 people lived in Kelly Ridge.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtankhola

Kirtankhola

Kirtankhola () is a river that starts from Sayeshtabad in Barisal district and ends into the Gajalia near Gabkhan khal (canal). The total length of the river is about .

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%203166

ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard made by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and it uses short codes to name all countries and some other places. People from all over the world can use the same codes; this is helpful because different languages have different names for many countries. For example, the country English-speakers call Spain is called Espana by Spanish-speakers. The ISO 3166 has three codes for Spain: ES, ESP, and 724. No other country has any of these codes.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette%20Reker

Henriette Reker

Henriette Reker (born 9 December 1956 in Cologne) is a German lawyer and independent politician, elected mayor of Cologne in 2015. She served as deputy mayor of Gelsenkirchen since 2000. In 2010 she was appointed a mayoral deputy for social affairs, integration and the environment of the city of Cologne. Supported by CDU, FDP and The Greens she is running for the office of the Mayor of Cologne. At a public event on 17 October 2015, the day before the mayoral elections, she was seriously wounded when a 44-year old man stabbed her in the neck with a knife, while shouting against refugees. A day after the attack, Reker was elected mayor of Cologne after gaining 52.66% of the votes. She is the first female mayor elected in Cologne's history.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasquale%20J.%20D%27Amuro

Pasquale J. D'Amuro

Pasquale J. "Pat" D'Amuro is an American television analyst and former intelligence agent. He is an expert on terrorism. D'Amuro is a former Director of FBI in New York. He worked for the FBI for 26 years. After the FBI, he went to work for Giuliani Security & Safety, a New York security consulting company. Life D'Amuro grew up in upstate New York. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Business at the Niagara University. He bagan working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in May 1979. While working for the FBI, D'Amuro learn much about bank robberies, fraud, organized crime, drug trafficing and similar crimes. After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, he focused his research on terrorist attacks. After this, he was involved with the research of the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Aden, Yemen, and the attacks on September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Over time, he became a leading expert on al-Qaeda. After the attacks of September 11, D'Amuro became the assistant director of the counterterrorism division of the FBI. He made changes that led to better exchange of information between the FBI, CIA, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. He is also responsible for the creation of the Terrorism Watch List. It is a combination of the information of many different agencies. In August 2003, he became director of the FBI office in New York. It is the largest FBI office. At this time, he held the third highest position in the FBI. At this time, he began giving public lectures often on the changes that had been made at the FBI since September 11. In March 2005, he left the FBI after a service of 26 years. After leaving the FBI, he became director of Nine Thirty Capital Management and chairman of the board of Giuliani Security & Safety. In March 2006 he became a commissary of Mercy College. In April 2008, he became the director of American Defense Systems. D'Amuro is often on the television network CNN as a senior analyst. Honors D'Amuro has been given several awards. These include the Presidential Rank Award of the FBI. In 2004, he was given an honorary doctorate in law from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 2009, D'Amuro got a Four Freedoms Award in the category Freedom from fear.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9rida%2C%20Yucat%C3%A1n

Mérida, Yucatán

Merida () is the capital and largest city in the Yucatan state in Mexico. It is also the largest city of the Yucatan Peninsula.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20optimization

Combinatorial optimization

Combinatorial optimization is a branch of discrete mathematics. The problems looked at revolve around finding an optimal object from a set of objects, or finding an ordering of the objects in the set that is optimal according to some criteria. Examples are finding the Minimum spanning tree in a graph or the Travelling Salesman Problem. Many of the problems looked at have also been solved using linear programming.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%AEnes

Guînes

Guines is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20Ges%C3%B9

Church of the Gesù

The Church of the Gesu (, ) is the mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a Catholic religious order.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Paul%20Conaboy

Richard Paul Conaboy

Richard Paul Conaboy (June 12, 1925 - November 9, 2018) was an American judge. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1992. He was appointed by President Jimmy Carter. From 1989 to 1992, he was Chief Judge of the court. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Conaboy died on November 9, 2018 at a hospital in Scranton from a heart attack at the age of 93.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuz%20Aleshkovsky

Yuz Aleshkovsky

Iosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky (), known as Yuz Aleshkovsky () (September 21, 1929 - March 21, 2022) was a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and, playwright. He was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberian Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He was a visiting professor at Wesleyan University in the United States. In 1987 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for fiction. In 2002 Aleshkovsky won the Pushkin Prize. Aleshkovsky died on March 21, 2022 in Tampa, Florida at the age of 92.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank%20Marvin

Hank Marvin

Hank Brian Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin, 28 October 1941) is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows and was the backing band for Cliff Richard. He was also in Marvin, Welch & Farrar.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinton%20de%20Kock

Quinton de Kock

Quinton de Kock is a cricketer from South Africa and retired captain of the South Africa national cricket team. He was born on December 17, 1992.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagnh%C3%A4rad

Vagnhärad

Vagnharad is a locality in Trosa Municipality in Sodermanland County in Sweden. In 2010, 3,324 people lived there.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolken

Bolken

Bolken is a municipality in the district Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki%20Okubo

Yuki Okubo

Yuki Okubo (born 17 April 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Tochigi.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Love%20%28The%20Outfield%20song%29

Your Love (The Outfield song)

"Your Love" is a 1985 song by English rock group The Outfield. It was taken from their debut album Play Deep and charted at number 6 in the United States. It is an uptempo new wave, power pop, rock single.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech%20Kilar

Wojciech Kilar

Wojciech Kilar (17 July 1932 - 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and movie composer. He was known for his composing in Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Pianist. He received many awards throughout his fifty years of composing. Kilar was born on 17 July 1932 in Lwow, Poland (present-day Lviv, Ukraine). He studied at State Higher School of Music and at State Higher School of Music. Kilar married Barbara Pomianowska in April 1966. They had no children. Their marriage lasted for almost over forty years. Pomianowska died in November 2007. Kilar composed many movie compositions. He composed the trailer music for Schindler's List. He also composed the music for Promised Land and for Dracula. He composed his musical works during a festival for Pope John Paul II. In 1991 Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi made a movie about his life titled Wojciech Kilar. Kilar, who was suffering from brain cancer during his final years, from which he died on 29 December 2013 in Katowice, Poland at the age of 81.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulur%20taluk

Sulur taluk

Sulur taluk is a taluk of Coimbatore district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters is the town of Sulur. This revenue block consist of 41 revenue villages. Demographics According to the 2011 census, the taluk of Sulur had a population of 320,406 with 160,677 males and 159,729 females. There were 994 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 73.9. Child population in the age group below 6 was 13,678 Males and 13,162 Females.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction%20cost

Transaction cost

Transportation cost- In order to ensure price in the market, it is assumed that the transportation costs are zero. A producer can sell his product at any place and buyer can buy it from the place he like.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens%20Fritz

Clemens Fritz

Clemens Fritz (born 7 December 1980) is a German football player. He plays for Werder Bremen.

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Kars

Kars (, ) is a city in northeast Turkey and is the capital of the Kars Province, before at the head of a sanjak in the Turkish vilayet of Erzurum. Population: 8,672 (1878); 20,891 (1897); 54,000 (1970); 142,145 (1990); 130,361 (2000). History The early history of Kars is little known, beyond that it had its own dynasty of Armenian rulers and was the capital of a region known as Vanand. At some point in the 9th century (at least by 888) it became part of the territory of the Armenian Bagratids. From 928 to 961 Kars became the capital of their kingdom. It was during this period that the cathedral, later known as the Church of the Apostles, was built.

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Fayette County

Fayette County is the name of eleven counties in the United States, each named for the Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman who served in the American Revolution: Fayette County, Alabama Fayette County, Georgia Fayette County, Illinois Fayette County, Indiana Fayette County, Iowa Fayette County, Kentucky (formerly in Virginia) Fayette County, Ohio Fayette County, Pennsylvania Fayette County, Tennessee Fayette County, Texas Fayette County, West Virginia Other Lafayette County

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Monseñor Nouel Province

Monsenor Nouel is a province of the Dominican Republic. It is in the central part of the country. Its capital city is Bonao. The province was created in 1982. It was a municipality of the La Vega province before being elevated to the category of province. Name The province was named after Archbishop Adolfo Alejandro Nouel, who was President of the Dominican Republic in 1912-1913. History The valley where is the province was named by the Spanish conquistadors as Sabana de Bonao ("Bonao Savanna"; Bonao was the Taino name of the region. Bartholomew Columbus, younger brother of Christopher Columbus, founded here a fort in 1495-1497 and Bonao became one of the most important city of the Hispaniola island during the first years of the Spanish colony. Later, the city was abandoned and was founded again during the Haitian occupation with the name of "Paraje del Yuna". In 1859, it became a military post in the municipality of La Vega. In 1936, it became a municipality of La Vega province under the name of Monsenor Nouel. The province was created in 1982 with the municipality of Monsenor Nouel and the municipal districts of Piedra Blanca and Maimon. In 2005, the name of the municipality of Monsenor Nouel was changed to Bonao even if the name had been changed since 1960. In 1982, Maimon became a municipality and in 1991 Piedra Blanca became the third municipality of the province. Villa Sonador became a municipal district in 1999, Sabana del Puerto in 2000, Juan Adrian in 2001, Juma Bejucal in 2004, and Arroyo Toro-Masipedro and Jayaco in 2006. Location The Monsenor Nouel province is bordered to the north and the west by the La Vega province, to the east by the Juan Sanchez Ramirez and Monte Plata provinces and to the south by the San Cristobal and San Jose de Ocoa provinces. Population In (last national census), there were people living in the Monsenor Nouel province, and 112,305 () living in towns and cities. The population density was persons/km2. Its population represents of the total population of the country and the province is ranked as the 17th (out of 31 plus the National District) more populated province. , the total estimated propulation of the province is 171,040 inhabitants. The largest city of the province is Bonao, its head municipality or capital, with a population (in ) of 76,241 inhabitants. Geography The Monsenor Nouel province has a total area of . It has of the area of the Dominican Republic and it is ranked as the 24th (out of 31 plus the National District) largest province. The altitude of Bonao, provincial capital, is above sea level. The province is mainly in a valley surrounded by mountains: the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain range" by the north, west and south, and by the Sierra de Yamasa ("Yamasa mountain range"), a branch of the Cordillera Central, by the east. The most important river is the Yuna, one of the largest of the Dominican Republic and of the Hispaniola island. Climate The climate of the province is a tropical climate, hot most of the year. Municipalities There are three municipalities and seven municipal districts (M.D.) in the province. Economy The main economic activities in the province are farming and mining (mainly surface mining of nickel). It is a province with an important production of rice. Cattle raising is also important, mainly for milk.

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Impartiality

An essential part of any of the world's legal systems is impartiality. It is important for tribunals, judges, juries and arbitrators to be impartial. It is equally important for the legal systems themselves to be impartial. Judges and tribunals Judges cannot favor one party over another or give more weight to one side's claims than the other. Judges learn about the law from outside the courtroom and before a trial begins. Because of this a judge may have an opinion regarding the law. When a judge expresses these views he or she is not being impartial. Juries In the US legal system, juries are screened and individuals selected by a process called voir dire. Both the prosecution and the defense question jury candidates before a judge. This is to see if they can remain impartial. Any person having a personal interest in the outcome of the trial or who is obviously biased may be removed. This is called striking a juror. It is rare to have more than 10% of potential jurors struck from a trial. Trial by jury began in the United Kingdom. Except for cases where there is a provision by the law, it is the right of every person accused of a crime to have an impartial jury trial. More and more criminal trials are held without a jury. The less severe crimes are tried by magistrates. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the right to a fair trial. In Canada juries are made up of 12 ordinary persons, male or female, who are expected to be impartial triers of fact. They decide whether the Crown (the prosecution) has made its case. Judges have the option of increasing the jury to 13 or 14 jurors, but only 12 may vote on the guilt or innocence of the accused. Juries in Scotland have 15 jurors. In many European civil law countries and Japan, juries can be made up of laypersons and judges. Also the opposing council may not be able to strike jurors as in the United States. Many believe the Magna Carta first guaranteed a right to trial by one's peers. The Latin judicium parium does not mean a trial by jury. The word judicium in the language of the day meant a judge. The term liber homo, usually translated as freeman, at that time were a limited class in England. So it did not mean every person.

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Vic Fazio

Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. (October 11, 1942 - March 16, 2022) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for California from 1979 to 1999. Fazio was also a member of the California State Assembly from 1975 until 1978. He was also Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 1995 until 1999. Fazio was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. Fazio died on March 16, 2022 at his home in Arlington, Virginia from melanoma at the age of 79.

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Zee and Co.

Zee and Co. is a 1972 British drama movie. It is also called X, Y and Zee or Zee and Company. It was directed by Brian G. Hutton. The movie is based on the novel by Edna O'Brien. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York and Margaret Leighton.

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Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (song)

"Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" is the first single off American pop punk band Good Charlotte's second studio album, The Young and the Hopeless. The song was released in September 6, 2002. On the Billboard charts, the song was able to peak at #20 on the Hot 100 and #6 on the Top 40 Mainstream. In 2003, the song won a MTV Video Music Award for "Viewer's Choice". It was also the winner of a Kerrang! Award for Best Single.

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Lilac (colour)

Lilac is a light violet colour. It is named after the colour of the lilac flower. The actual colour of the flowers of the plant may range from the colour of the lilac flowers shown at left to a richer or deeper colour. These colours, such as rich lilac and deep lilac, are shown in the colour chart below. The first written use of lilac as a colour name in English was in 1775. Meaning of lilac Lilac is a soft dainty colour that is often associated with grandparents or grandchildren and used on greeting cards addressed to grandparents or grandchildren. Tones of lilac and Persian lilac colour comparison charts Some lilac flowers are coloured tones of lilac and other lilac flowers are coloured tones of red-violet. Those lilac flowers that are coloured red-violet are said to be coloured Persian lilac. Therefore, two different colour comparison charts are provided.

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Parade

A parade is a large or small group of people who all walk together, usually down a street or road. People who walk in parades are often dressed in costumes, and followed by marching bands, floats or large balloons. Reasons They are often held on holidays or to honor someone. Parades are held for many reasons, but are usually for celebrations of some kind. Days like St Patrick's Day are often celebrated with a parade. Military parades A military parade is one of the most common parades. It is when soldiers march in public. Usually they are followed by tanks and other military vehicles. Military parades are often held after a battle or war has been won. In China, National Day is now celebrated with large military parades in Beijing every 5th year after 1949. In the United Kingdom, the Queen's Official Birthday (now always on a Saturday) is marked by a military parade every year. In the United States, such military parades are less common but usually held on Veterans Day and Independence Day. Famous parades One of the most famous parades in the United States is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. Over 44 million people watch this parade on television each year.

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Montgueux

Montgueux is a commune of the Aube departement in the north-central part of France.

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Grundy County

Grundy County is the name of four counties in the United States, all named in honor of Felix Grundy: Grundy County, Illinois Grundy County, Iowa Grundy County, Missouri Grundy County, Tennessee

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Tenuis consonant

In linguistics, a tenuis consonant is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized.

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Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (; 10 March 1957 2 May 2011) was the founder of al-Qaeda, the Sunni militant Islamist organization. It claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States. It is also responsible of many other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. Early life He was born in the bin Laden family to billionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Saudi Arabia. He studied there in college until 1979, when he joined the mujahideen forces in Pakistan against the Soviets in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the mujahideen by funneling arms, money and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan, also gaining popularity from many Arabs. In 1988, he formed al-Qaeda. He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and shifted his base to Sudan, until US pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996. After establishing a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States, initiating a series of bombings and related attacks. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, as the FBI placed a $25 million reward on him in their search for him. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group and Central Intelligence Agency operatives in a covert operation ordered by U.S. President Barack Obama. Beliefs and ideology Bin Laden probably believed that the restoration of Sharia law would set things right in the Muslim world, and that all other ideologies--"pan-Arabism, socialism, communism, democracy"--must be opposed. These beliefs, along with violent expansive jihad, have sometimes been called Qutbism. He believed Afghanistan under the rule of Mullah Omar's Taliban was "the only Islamic country" in the Muslim world. Bin Laden had consistently talked about his belief in the need for violent jihad to make right what he believed are injustices against Muslims perpetrated by the United States and sometimes by other non-Muslim states, the need to eliminate the state of Israel, and the necessity of forcing the US to withdraw from the Middle East. He had also called on Americans to "reject the immoral acts of fornication and homosexuality, intoxicants (e.g. alcohol), gambling, and usury" in an October 2002 letter. One of Bin Laden's most infamous beliefs was that civilians, including women and children, are legitimate targets of jihad. Bin Laden was antisemitic, and had delivered warnings against alleged Jewish conspiracies: "These Jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the next". Shia Muslims have been listed along with "Heretics,... America and Israel," as the four principal "enemies of Islam" at the ideology classes of bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organization.p303 In keeping with Wahhabi beliefs (the Saudi type of Islam), bin Laden opposed music on religious grounds,p167 and his attitude towards technology was mixed. He was interested in "earth-moving machinery and genetic engineering of plants" on the one hand, but rejected "chilled water" on the other.p172 His viewpoints and methods of achieving them led to him been designated as a terrorist by scholars, journalists from the New York Times, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Qatari news station Al Jazeera, analysts such as Peter Bergen, Michael Scheuer, Marc Sageman, and Bruce Hoffman and he was indicted on terrorism charges by law enforcement agencies in Madrid, New York City, and Tripoli. He stayed in hiding until he was killed by the United States in Pakistan, in May 2011. Names Osama bin Laden's name can be transliterated in many ways. Usamah bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Ladin (Arabic: 'sm@ bn mHmd bn `wD bnldn), shortened to Usama bin Laden ('sm@ bn ldn). The form used here, Osama bin Laden, is used by most English-language mass media. This includes CNN and the BBC. The FBI and Fox News use Usama bin Laden. Often the name is abbreviated to UBL. The bin Laden family (or "Binladin," as they like to be called) usually use the name as a surname in the Western style. The family company is known as the Binladin Brothers for Contracting and Industry. It is one of the largest corporations in Saudi Arabia. Marriages Bin Laden was first married at the age of 17 to a Syrian cousin. Her name was Najwa Ghanem. She was probably two years younger than he. They had 11 children. Najwa left bin Laden just before 9/11. He was married to Khadijah (1983-1995, divorced). His next wife was Khairiah (1985-2011, his death). His fourth wife was Siham (1987-2011, his death). He was married to unknown woman in 1996 but the marriage was annulled within a few days. His last wife was Amal (2000-2011, his death). There were a total of nine children from these later marriages, making 20 in all. Assassination U.S. President Barack Obama launched a mission, "Operation Neptune Spear", where United States Special Operation forces raided bin Laden's hideout compound. On the night of 2 May 2011 (Pakistani time; 1 May 2011 U.S. time), bin Laden was killed by bullets to the chest and head. His body was buried at sea later that day so there would be no grave.

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Pierluigi Collina

Pierluigi Collina (born 13 February 1960) is a former Italian football referee. IFFHS said he was the best football referee ever.

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Knight's tour

A knight's tour is a set of moves of a knight on a chessboard. The knight visits every square only once. If the knight ends on a square that is one knight's move from the beginning square (so that it could tour the board again immediately, following the same path), the tour is closed, otherwise it is open. The knight's tour problem is the mathematical problem of finding a knight's tour. Making a program to find a knight's tour is a common problem given to computer science students. Variations of the knight's tour problem involve chessboards of different sizes than the usual , as well as irregular (non-rectangular) boards.

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Alluvioni Piovera

Alluvioni Piovera is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Piedmont region in Italy. It was created on 1 January 2018 from the former municipalities of Alluvioni Cambio and Piovera.

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Kweisi Mfume

Kweisi Mfume ( ; born Frizzell Gerald Gray; October 24, 1948) is an American politician. He has been the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district from 1987 to 1996 and was elected again in May 2020. He is also the former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 2006, he ran for the U.S. Senate seat, but lost the Democratic nomination to Ben Cardin. In 2020, Mfume was elected to again fill his former House seat, after the death of Elijah Cummings.

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Lip

The lips are a body part around the mouth. There is a (usually larger) lower lip, and a smaller upper lip. They help us to eat, touch and speak. Lips also show emotions.

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San Leandro, California

San Leandro is a large suburban town in Alameda County, California, United States. The population was 91,008 at the 2020 census. It is on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, between Oakland to the northwest and Hayward to the southeast.

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Caroline County, Maryland

Caroline County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland on its Eastern Shore. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 33,066. Its county seat is Denton.

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Agnicourt-et-Séchelles

Agnicourt-et-Sechelles is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.

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Museum

A museum is a building<ref>Alexander, Edward Porter et al. (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=owHSEk96qxQC&pg=PA2 Museums in Motion: an Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums, p. 2]; excerpt, "Douglas Alan, former director of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, said that 'a museum in its simplest form consists of a building to house collections of objects for inspection, study and enjoyment."</ref> which is open to the public. It is also the institution where things are collected and then shown to people. History The word, museum, originates from Musa which is the goddesses of literature, art, and science who appears in Greek mythology. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the definition of museums has changed over time. The oldest museum structure in the world is the Shoso-in'' in Nara, Japan. Today's museums are non-profit, permanent institutions in the service of society and its development. Function A museum acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible heritage and the intangible heritage of humanity and the environment. Museums exist for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment. Some museums have things that visitors can do. For example, ecomuseums exist. Museums can be about different things such as art, national history, natural history, or science. People go to museums sometimes to learn, or to simply have fun. Museums with live animals are called zoos. Exhibitions Temporary or changing exhibits Exhibition which selects works along with some themes, e.g., a writer, a time, an area, etc. Permanent exhibits Exhibition which displays the works which the museum possesses.

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Grind

Grind might mean: The grind of a blade is the cross-section of the blade To finely grate something, like coffee beans In skateboarding, a grind is a trick on a skateboard grinding your teeth together

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Frank the Pug

Frank the Pug or Agent F is an alien that poses as a pug and is a character in the Men in Black franchise. He was voiced by Tim Blaney. He has appeared in all but one of the movies. Species According to Men in Black II, he is actually a Remoolian.

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Debbie Handley

Debbie Handley Cummins is an Australian water polo player. She was elected to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. She competed for the Australian women's national water polo team in the 1986 World Aquatics Championships.

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Vinca

Vinca (from Latin vincire "to bind, fetter") is a genus of five species in the family Apocynaceae, that grows in Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. The common name, shared with the related genus Catharanthus, is Periwinkle.

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La Piarre

La Piarre is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department. Population Transport Road The D27 road passes through the commune. Location The commune borders the Drome department.

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Haakon VII

Haakon VII (, born Prince Carl of Denmark; 3 August 1872 -- 21 September 1957) was the King of Norway from 1905 until his death in 1957. Originally born a Danish prince, he was the son of the future King Frederick VIII of Denmark and Louise of Sweden. Prince Carl was educated at the Royal Danish Naval Academy and served in the Royal Danish Navy. After the 1905 dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway, Prince Carl had an opportunity to take the Norwegian crown. Following the November plebiscite, Haakon accepted the opportunity and was proclaimed king on 18 November 1905. He took the Old Norse name Haakon, becoming the first independent Norwegian monarch to use that name since 1380. As king, Haakon gained much sympathy from the Norwegian people. Although the Constitution of Norway vests the King with considerable executive powers, in practice Haakon confined himself to a representative and ceremonial role while rarely interfering in politics, a practice continued by his son and grandson. Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany in April 1940. Haakon rejected German demands to legitimise the Quisling regime's puppet government, vowing to abdicate rather than do so. He refused to abdicate after going into exile in Great Britain. As such, he played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance to the invasion and the subsequent five-year-long occupation during the Second World War. He returned to Norway in June 1945 after the defeat of Germany. He became the King of Norway when his grandfather, Christian IX was still the King of Denmark, and that before his father and elder brother became kings of Denmark. During his reign he saw his father Frederick VIII, his elder brother Christian X, and his nephew Frederick IX ascend the throne of Denmark, in 1906, 1912 (also of Iceland from 1918 to 1944), and 1947 respectively. Haakon died on 21 September 1957 at the age of 85 after a long 52-year reign. He was succeeded by his only son, Olav, who ascended to the throne as Olav V. Haakon has a reputation as one Norway's greatest kings. Despite living in exile for five years, he refused to abdicate the throne. He played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance to the invasion and the subsequent five-year-long occupation. He also managed to hold his young and fragile country together in unstable political conditions. The World Wars Haakon VII reigned during two world wars. His refusal to submit when a German-pressured Storting body asked him to abdicate inspired the Norwegians to resist the German occupation during World War II. Haakon VII returned from exile in England to Norway in June 1945. Death Haakon VII died on September 21, 1957 in the Royal Palace in Oslo.

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Larderello

Larderello is a frazione of the comune of Pomarance, in Tuscany in central Italy. Larderello is famous for its geothermal productivity. History The region was known from ancient times for its volcanic nature and for the very hot springs. The Romans used its sulphur springs for bathing. In 1827, Francois de Larderel, a Frenchman, invented a way of extracting boric acid from the volcanic mud by using steam to separate the two. The town Larderello has the name in honour of Larderel's work. The region was the site of a pioneering experiment in the production of energy from geothermal sources in 1904. Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power generator on 4 July 1904, at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy. It was a small generator that lit four light bulbs. Later, in 1911, the world's first geothermal power plant was built there. In 1911, the world's first geothermal power plant was built in the Valle del Diavolo ("Devil's Valley"), named for the boiling water in the area. Larderello now produces 10% of the world's entire supply of geothermal electricity, amounting to 4,800 GWh per year.

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Santander, Spain

Santander (; ) is a city on the north coast of Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria. As of 2013, 178,465 people lived there. Santander has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).