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For the first four years of operation Superman Escape from Krypton was tied with Tower of Terror II as the fastest roller coaster in the world In 2001 the speed record was taken by unk in Japan which features a top speed of 106 9 miles per hour 172 0 km h Superman Escape from Krypton held the record for the tallest roller coaster in the world until 2003 when the record was taken by the 420 foot tall 130 m Top Thrill unk at Cedar Point As of 2015 it has the fifth fastest speed the third tallest structure and the third highest drop in the world
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The single was successful in radio throughout 2003 and appeared on several singles charts worldwide In the United Kingdom the song peaked at number nine and in the United States rose to number 29 It also reached number seven in Canada and number 28 in Australia
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In 1999 Baltimore experienced high rates of murder and unemployment and had a failing city school system O Malley declared his candidacy focusing his campaign on a zero tolerance approach to crime He received endorsements from many of the city s African American leaders After a close race O Malley overtook both Stokes and Bell to win the Democratic nomination which all but assured him of victory in the general election He defeated Republican candidate David F Tufaro in the general election by an overwhelming majority
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At the beginning of the First World War Black Prince was one of the four armoured cruisers serving in the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet commanded by Rear Admiral Ernest Charles Thomas unk She participated in the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau Following the escape of the two German ships to neutral Turkey Black Prince and Duke of Edinburgh were sent into the Red Sea to search for German merchant ships with Black Prince capturing the German ocean liners unk and unk On 6 November she was ordered to Gibraltar to join a squadron of French and British ships to search for German warships still at sea off the African coast This was cancelled on 19 November after the location of the German East Asia Squadron was revealed by survivors of the Battle of Coronel Black Prince joined the Grand Fleet in December 1914 and was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron under Rear Admiral Sir Robert Keith unk
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The South Vietnamese eventually had their way As the generals and Hng were unwilling to reinstate the HNC Taylor sent General John L Throckmorton to meet them and unk relations Throckmorton told the Vietnamese generals they had read too much into Taylor s comments and that the US had no intention of unk them out of power with aid cuts Cang appeared unimpressed while Thiu and K made indirect and vague comments about what they perceived to be misleading tactics during the talks Khnh appeared unk by Throckmorton s overtures and made a public statement on December 30 saying he was not as hostile to the Americans as reported and he wanted Thiu and Cang to meet the Americans to relieve any remaining tension He also claimed privately that the statements attributed to him by Deepe were false and set up a bilateral committee to discuss tensions The generals eventually won out as the Americans did not move against them in any way for their refusal to reinstate the HNC The South Vietnamese won in large part because the Americans had spent so much on the country and could not afford to abandon it and lose to the communists over the matter of military rule as a communist takeover would be a big public relations coup for the Soviet bloc According to Karnow for Khnh and his officers their weakness was their strength An anonymous South Vietnamese government official said Our big advantage over the Americans is that they want to win the war more than we do
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First Light follows the adventure of two protagonists Peter who lives with his mother and father in New York but is in Greenland for his father s research and Thea who lives in an underground colony in Greenland called Gracehope Gracehope was formed hundreds of years ago by a group called the Settlers who used to live in England They possessed unusual abilities such as extremely good vision and hearing leading them to be called eye unk and ear unk respectively These powers were seen as sorcery prompting Grace the leader of the Settlers to bring the Settlers under the ice in Greenland where they could live in peace
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During the 16th century this turbulence began to unk and the monarch became truly independent Under Henry VIII and his successors the king was the head of the Protestant English church and therefore not unk to the clergy The rise of Parliament in this period however was problematic While the monarch was the predominant partner in the English constitution the courts stopped short of declaring him all powerful recognizing the role that Parliament played In unk s Case Henry recognised this noting that he was far more powerful with the consent of Parliament than without Nowhere was this more apparent than in the matter of taxation Sir Thomas Smith and other writers of the period pointed out the monarch could not impose taxation without Parliament s consent
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In 1973 Stuart unk described it as a rich and nourishing immersion in the rush of pure sensation and its flow of stirring shadows and dim dreams In many ways the ode marks both a beginning and an end It is both the unk and potentially the most ambitious of the sequence Yet its failure if we choose to consider it that is more the result of deliberate unk than any inability of means Andrew Motion in 1997 argued Like Melancholy the poem is too articulate for its own poetic good In two of his May odes Melancholy and Indolence Keats defined themes common to the whole group with such fierce unk that he restricted their imaginative power His identity had prevailed
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Hasta Que Te Conoc was the first single to be released from the album and peaked at No 13 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart The second single Palabras del Alma peaked at No 15 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart Si T No Te Fueras was the last single released from the album which peaked at No 31 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart
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4 unk denotes a mixture of all the lanthanides except unk and the third is a unk unk unk also contains thorium and yttrium which unk handling because thorium and its decay products are radioactive For the extraction from the ore and the isolation of individual lanthanides several methods have been developed The choice of method is based on the concentration and composition of the ore and on the distribution of the individual lanthanides in the resulting concentrate unk the ore and subsequent acidic and basic unk is used mostly to produce a concentrate of lanthanides If cerium is the dominant lanthanide then it is converted from cerium III to cerium IV and then precipitated Further separation by solvent unk or ion exchange chromatography yields a fraction which is enriched in europium This fraction is reduced with zinc zinc unk electrolysis or other methods converting the europium III to europium II Europium II reacts in a way similar to that of alkaline earth metals and therefore it can be precipitated as carbonate or is co precipitated with barium sulfate Europium metal is available through the electrolysis of a mixture of molten unk and unk or unk in a graphite cell which serves as unk using graphite as unk The other product is chlorine gas
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The first African Americans to reach America were initially brought over as indentured servants but instead became slaves By the 19th century slave trading was a thriving business Typical slave families consisted of one or two children Women were primarily the head of the families either because the fathers had died or had been separated from the family African American women experienced what came to be known as the double day a full day of domestic unk plus a full day of work outside the home
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No 79 Wing was established at Batchelor Northern Territory on 30 November 1943 Its combat units consisted of Nos 1 and 2 Squadrons flying Beaufort light reconnaissance bombers No 31 Squadron Beaufighter long range fighters and No 18 Netherlands East Indies Squadron B 25 Mitchell medium bombers The wing was commanded by Group Captain Charles Eaton whose Dutch personnel called him unk Charles Uncle Charles Operating under the auspices of North Western Area Command NWA Darwin No 79 Wing participated in the New Guinea and North Western Area Campaigns during 1944
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More than 200 artists have recorded cover versions of Imagine Joan Baez included it on 1972 s Come from the Shadows and Diana Ross recorded a version for her 1973 album Touch Me in the Morning In 1995 Blues Traveler recorded the song for the Working Class Hero A Tribute to John Lennon album and Dave Matthews has performed the song live with them A Perfect Circle covered the song for the album unk released in 2004 unk unk recorded the song for her 2005 covers album Those Were the Days A cover version of the song performed by Italian singer Marco unk entered the top 20 in Italy in 2009 peaking at number 13 Seal Pink unk Jeff Beck unk unk unk unk and others recorded a version for Herbie Hancock s 2010 album The Imagine Project
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On 15 January 1944 an earthquake occurred in the town of San Juan Argentina killing some 10 000 people In response Pern who was then the Secretary of Labour established a fund to raise money to aid the victims He devised a plan to have an artistic festival as a fundraiser and invited radio and film actors to participate After a week of fundraising all participants met at a gala held at unk Park Stadium in Buenos Aires to benefit earthquake victims It was at this gala on 22 January 1944 that Eva Duarte first met Colonel Juan Pern Eva promptly became the colonel s mistress Eva referred to the day she met her future husband as her marvelous day Fraser and Navarro write that Juan Pern and Eva left the gala together at around two in the morning
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The steel track of Silver Bullet is approximately 3 125 feet 952 m long and the height of the lift is approximately 146 feet 45 m high Silver Bullet along with all of Bolliger Mabillard s other roller coasters was manufactured by unk Steel unk located in Batavia Ohio and erected by unk Construction Company The track is filled with sand to reduce the noise made by the trains Silver Bullet was also the first Bolliger Mabillard inverted roller coaster to use magnetic brakes in the brake run The track and supports of the lift hill are red with the remaining track being yellow with red rails and the remaining supports colored white
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LAMB joined with Royal unk for the shoe line Stefani is widening her footwear line for adults to include boots and unk LAMB collaborated with Coty Inc for the fragrance and with LeSportsac for handbags in 2003 Stefani went on to design a new line of handbags with unk and Partners in 2006 The bags feature LeSportsac s signature rip stop nylon along with a variety of unk metal hardware leather unk and colorful unk Stefani plans to design lingerie as well as make up products for LAMB LAMB partnered with unk Group on a line of women s watches The line consists of 39 unk
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Varanasi is governed by a number of bodies the most important being the Varanasi Nagar Nigam Municipal Corporation and the Varanasi Development Authority which is responsible for the master planning of the city Water supply and sewage system is operated by the unk Nigam Varanasi is represented in the Parliament of India by the current Prime Minister of India unk unk who won the unk unk elections in 2014 by a huge margin
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In the same time Zelanti also began to incline to give their support to Ganganelli looking upon him as indifferent or even favourable to the Jesuits It seems that the attitude of Zelanti was decided by the secret negotiations between their leaders Alessandro and Gian Francesco Albani and the Spanish cardinals Cardinal de Bernis the nominal leader of the court faction probably did not play any role in the appointment of Ganganelli and only followed the instructions of Marquis d unk when all had been already known
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The pay dispute split the unit About two thirds went on strike saying they would not return to action unless the Army unk their wages and paid them in foreign currency Meanwhile some of the more unk Frenchmen made steps to remain permanently buying cars and having their wives join them in Salisbury The Army detained the strike s unk for insubordination With neither side willing to unk the Army refused to give the strikers extra pay or special treatment saying this would unk Rhodesia s policy not to engage mercenaries the disaffected men were repatriated to France at their own request The Rhodesian Army considered disbanding the unit altogether but unk when Major de l unk convinced his superiors that his remaining men were still loyal and eager to continue serving
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In 2009 Federer won two Grand Slam singles titles the French Open over Robin unk and Wimbledon over Andy Roddick Federer reached two other Grand Slam finals losing to Nadal at the Australian Open and to Juan Martn del Potro at the US Open both in tight five set matches
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Following the 1837 treaty the Saint Croix Triangle between the Saint Croix and Mississippi Rivers had been opened to US settlement Still until the later establishment of the Minnesota Territory this triangle remained an island of white culture and settlement The vast majority of the Minnesota area though was Indian country Contemporary accounts of larger towns such as Mendota Saint Anthony and Saint Paul in the 1840s indicate that the majority of the population was predominantly of French and Mtis ancestry Even in these communities European culture was not strictly dominant Commenting on Minnesota s culture of the 1840s Governor Alexander Ramsey described the streets of Saint Paul saying that it was common to see the blankets and painted faces of Indians and the red unk and unk of French unk and half breeds greatly unk over the less picturesque costume of the Anglo American race
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In 1983 84 the duo recorded eleven songs with Orlando at unk Studios in New York West End Girls Opportunities Let s Make Lots of Money One More Chance I Want A Lover A Man Could Get Arrested I Get unk Two unk by Zero unk It s A Sin Pet Shop Boys and Later unk Orlando played most of the instruments on West End Girls including the jazz riff at the end Lowe played one chord and the bassline It included a drum part lifted from Michael Jackson s Billie Jean and an arrangement involving what Tennant called Barry White chords Orlando was thrilled by the song s production his idea was to make a rap record in a British accent
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In the United Kingdom True Blue was released on September 29 1986 It debuted at number three on the UK Singles Chart before climbing to number one the next week becoming Madonna s third number one single there It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry BPI in October 1986 According to the Official Charts Company the song has sold 545 000 copies there The song peaked at number one for two weeks in October 1986 in Ireland making it her fourth number one single on the Irish Singles Chart Both in Australia and New Zealand the song reached the top five and was certified platinum in the former region by the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA for sales of 70 000 copies of the single In Europe True Blue also topped the unk Hot 100 for one week in October 1986 It peaked in the top five in Belgium Italy and the Netherlands and in the top ten in Austria France Germany and Switzerland
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Clearmountain was said to have been one of the first recording engineers to hang tissue paper over the unk of the NS 10 to tame the over bright treble Covering the unk with tissue paper was said to produce treble deficient mixes when replayed on normal domestic hi fi The phenomenon became the subject of hot debate Recording engineer Bob unk investigated the alleged sonic effects of tissue paper He found inconsistent results with different paper but said that tissue paper generally demonstrated an undesirable effect known as comb filtering where the high frequencies are reflected back into the tweeter instead of being absorbed unk derided the tissue practice as aberrant behaviour saying that engineers usually fear comb filtering and its associated cancellation effects He also suggested that more unk and less random electronic filtering would be unk Newell et al noted that had the speakers unk been used in studios where they are routinely removed they would have had the same effect on the treble output as the improvised tissue paper filter
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The forward troops of the German and Ottoman rearguard which held a front of about 10 miles 16 km were driven back to Bir el Abd by the New Zealanders At this time the attackers appeared likely to succeed as they had firmly established themselves across the telegraph line and the old caravan road supported by the Somerset and Leicester batteries But the German Austrian and Ottoman rearguard quickly realised how thin the attacking line was and at 09 00 advanced out of their trenches to counterattack This aggressive move was only checked by artillery fire from the Somerset Battery effectively combined with fire from machine guns The subsequent fire fight made it extremely difficult for the mounted riflemen to maintain their position and on the flanks the light horse were also held up The German and Ottoman infantry renewed their attack towards a gap between the New Zealanders and the 2nd Light Horse Brigade but the 5th Light Horse Regiment covered the gap and the German and Ottoman advance was halted
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DuMont spun off WABD and WTTG as the DuMont Broadcasting Corporation The name was later changed to Metropolitan Broadcasting Company to distance the company from what was seen as a complete failure In 1958 John unk bought Paramount s shares for 4 million and renamed the company Metromedia in 1960 WABD became unk TV and later unk WTTG still broadcasts under its original call letters as a Fox affiliate
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The Litigators is a 2011 legal thriller novel by John Grisham his 25th fiction novel overall The Litigators is about a two partner Chicago law firm attempting to strike it rich in a class action lawsuit over a unk reduction drug by a major unk drug company The protagonist is a Harvard Law School unk big law firm unk who stumbles upon the unk and joins it only to find himself unk against his old law firm in this case The book is regarded as more humorous than most of Grisham s prior novels
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In 2011 it was announced that a younger John Constantine would feature in Justice League Dark one of the new titles launched as part of September 2011 s DC Universe reboot He was to be part of a team including Shade The Changing Man unk and Madame unk known as Justice League Dark As part of the DC universe reboot in September 2011 Peter Milligan started the title which featured an alternate version of John Constantine as a prominent part of the team Milligan wrote eight issues of Justice League Dark with writer Jeff unk taking over on issue nine
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