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wit-train-topic-000000632
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannum
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Jannum
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Introduction
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Jannum
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Jannum (Dutch: Janum) is a small village in Noardeast-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 63 in January 2017. Before 2019, the village was part of the Ferwerderadiel municipality.
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wit-train-topic-000000633
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Toshiyuki
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Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
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Introduction
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Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
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Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (birthdate unknown – 901 or 907, Japanese: 藤原 敏行, also 藤原 敏行 朝臣 Fujiwara Toshiyuki no Ason) was a middle Heian waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He was designated a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and one of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu.
Toshiyuki's poems are included in several imperial poetry anthologies, including Kokin Wakashū and Gosen Wakashū. A personal poetry collection known as the Toshiyukishū also remains.
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wit-train-topic-000000634
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Boreelianus
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Codex Boreelianus
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Textual variants (against Textus Receptus)
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Codex Boreelianus / Text / Textual variants (against Textus Receptus)
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Codex Boreelianus, Codex Boreelianus Rheno-Trajectinus, designated by Fᵉ or 09 in the Gregory-Aland numbering and ε 86 in von Soden numbering, is a 9th century uncial manuscript of the four Gospels in Greek. The manuscript, written on parchment, is full of lacunae, many of which arose between 1751 and 1830. The codex was named Boreelianus after Johannes Boreel, who brought it from the East.
The text of the codex represents the majority of the text, but with numerous alien readings. Some of its readings do not occur in any other manuscript. According to the present textual critics its text is not a very important manuscript, but it is quoted in all modern editions of the Greek New Testament.
The manuscript was brought from the East at the beginning of the 17th century. It was in private hands for over 100 years. Since 1830 it has been housed at the Utrecht University.
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The words before the bracket are the readings of the Textus Receptus (received text used in the West from the 16th century until the end of the 19th century), the words after are the readings of the codex.
Matthew 9:1 εμβας ] εμβας ο Ιησους (unique reading)
Matthew 9:1 ιδιαν ] υδαιαν
Matthew 9:5 αφεωνται σοι ] αφεωνται σου
Matthew 9:5 εγειραι ] εγειρε
Matthew 9:13 ηλθον ] εληλυθα
Matthew 9:18 αρχων ελθων ] αρχων προσηλθεν τω Ιησου
Matthew 9:18 αυτω λεγων ] αυτω λεγω
Matthew 9:18 οτι η θυγατηρ ] τι η θυγατηρ
Matthew 9:32 εξερχομενων ] διεξερχομενων
Matthew 9:33 οτι ] absent (codices: B C D E G K L S)
Matthew 9:36 εκλελυμενοι ] εσκυλμενοι (codices: B C D E F G K S)
Matthew 10:4 κανανιτης ] κανατης
Matthew 10:5 αποστειλας ] απεστειλεν
Matthew 10:8 νεκρους εγειρετε ] absent (codices: E K L M S)
Matthew 11:7 (also in Matthew 11:8; 11:9) εξελθετε ] εξεληλυθατε (Alexandrian manuscripts have εξελθατε)
Matthew 13:43 ακουετω ] absent
Matthew 13:54 εκπληττεσθαι ] εκπλησεσθαι
Matthew 14:19 και λαβων ] λαβων (codices: B D E F K L M P S)
Matthew 14:22 τους οχλους ] τον οχλον (later hand corrected into τους οχλους)
Matthew 14:23 μονος ] absent
Matthew 14:34 γεννησαρετ ] γενησαρεθ (codices: K L)
Matthew 15:4 σου ] absent (codices: B D E F G S)
Matthew 15:14 πεσουνται ] εμπεσουνται
Matthew 15:36 μαθηταις ] ματαις (corrected by several later hands)
Matthew 16:3 μεν ] absent
Matthew 16:27 την πραξιν ] τα εργα
Matthew 16:28 των ωδε εστηκοτων ] ωδε εστωτες
Matthew 17:9 απο ] εκ (B C D E F H K L M S)
Matthew 18:14 υμων ] μου (B H)
Matthew 18:8 σκανδαλιζει ] σκανδαλιζη
Matthew 19:5 προσκολληθησεται ] κοληθησεται (κολληθησεται B D F G H S)
Matthew 19:18 Ιησους ] absent
Matthew 21:30 δευτερω ] ετερω (D E F H K)
Matthew 22:24 αναστησει ] εξαναστησει (F G)
Matthew 22:37 ειπεν ] εφη (B D E F G K L M S)
Matthew 23:25 ακρασιας ] αδικιας (C E F G H K S)
Matthew 23:27 absent ] τοις ανθρωποις
Matthew 23:33 πως φυγητε απο της κρισεως της γεεννης ] πως φυγητε της κρισεως της γεεννης
Matthew 26:15 καγω ] και εγω
Matthew 26:17 πασχα ] πασα
Matthew 26:26 ευλογησας ] ευχαριστησας (A E F H K M S)
Matthew 26:33 εγω ουδεποτε σκανδαλισθησομαι ] εγω ουδεποτε σκανδαλισθησομαι εν σοι
Matthew 26:40 τω πετρω ] αυτοις (F K M)
Matthew 27:17 πιλατος ] πηλατος
Matthew 27:41 πρεσβυτερων ] πρεσβυτερων και φαρισαιων (E F K M S)
Matthew 28:13 οι μαθηται αυτου νυκτος ελθοντες εκλεψαν αυτον, ημων κοιμωμενων ] ημων κοιμωμενων οι ματηται αυτου ελθοντες εκλεψαν αυτον
Matthew 27:55 τω Ιησου ] αυτου
Mark 1:9 ναζαρετ ] ναζαρεθ
Mark 1:16 βαλλοντας ] αμφιβαλλοντας (A B D F G H L S)
Mark 2:9 κραββατον ] κραβαττον
Mark 4:3 σπειραι ] σπειραι τον σπορον αυτου (unique reading)
Mark 5:6 προσεκυνεσεν ] προσεπεσεν
Mark 6:23 ωμοσεν ] ωμολογησεν
Mark 7:3 κρατουντες την παραδοσιν των πρεσβυτερων ] κρατουντες των πρεσβυτερων
Mark 9:1 εως αν ιδωσι την βασιλειαν του θεου ] εως αν ιδωσι την βασιλειαν του θεου
Mark 9:8 Ιησουν μονον μεθ' εαυτων ] Ιησουν μεθ' εαυτων
Mark 9:43 (the same in Mark 9:45) εις την γεενναν, εις το πυρ το ασβεστον ] εις τεν γεενναν του πυρος
Mark 9:47 εις την γεενναν, εις το πυρ το ασβεστον ] εις το πυρ το ασβεστον
Mark 10:26 οι δε περισσως εξεπλησσοντο ] οι δε εξεπλησσοντο
Mark 12:28 εις των γραμματεων ] εις γραμματεων
Luke 1:64 ανεωχθη δε το στομα αυτου ] ανεωχθη δε και το στομα αυτου
Luke 1:78 δια σπλαγχνα ελεους θεου ημων ] absent
Luke 7:47 αφεωνται ] αφιονται
Luke 8:2 δαιμονια επτα εξεληλυθει ] δαιμονια εξεληλυθει
Luke 8:22 αυτος ανεβη ] αυτος ο Ιησους ανεβη
Luke 8:30 επηρωτησε ] επερωτησε (lack of augmentum)
Luke 9:45 περι του ρηματος τουτου ] περι τουτου
Luke 9:46 εισηλθεν δε διαλογισμος ] εισηλθεν διαλογισμος
Luke 10:13 και σποδω ] absent
John 2:3 υστερησαντος ] οιστερησαντος
John 9:1 ειδεν ] ο ις ειδεν (G H)
John 10:8 προ εμου ] absent
John 13:17 αποκρινεται ο ιξσους εκεινος εστιν ] absent
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wit-train-topic-000000635
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunabeda_Wildlife_Sanctuary
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Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary
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Gallery
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Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary / Gallery
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Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary and a proposed tiger reserve located in the Nuapada district of Odisha, adjoining Chhattisgarh. It has a total area of 600 km². The sanctuary harbours a great diversity of wildlife habitats, with a vast plateau, multiple valleys, gorges and magnificent waterfalls. The sanctuary forms the catchment area of the Jonk River, over which a dam has been constructed to facilitate irrigation. The Indra nullah and Udanti River lies to the south of the sanctuary. The important vegetation of the site comprises dry deciduous tropical forest.
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wit-train-topic-000000636
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communes_of_France
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Communes of France
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Number of communes
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Communes of France / Terminology / Number of communes
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The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy or municipio in Spain. The United Kingdom has no exact equivalent, as communes resemble districts in urban areas, but are closer to parishes in rural areas where UK districts are much larger. Communes are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The communes are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France.
Communes vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. Communes typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All communes have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are communes, the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers.
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As of January 2015, there were 36,681 communes in France, 36,552 of them in metropolitan France and 129 of them overseas. This is a considerably higher total than that of any other European country, because French communes still largely reflect the division of France into villages or parishes at the time of the French Revolution.
The whole territory of the French Republic is divided into communes; even uninhabited mountains or rain forests are dependent on a commune for their administration. This is unlike some other countries, such as the United States, where unincorporated areas directly governed by a county or a higher authority can be found. There are only a few exceptions:
COM (collectivité d'outre-mer, i.e. overseas collectivity) of Saint-Martin (33,102 inhabitants). It was previously a commune inside the Guadeloupe région. The commune structure was abolished when Saint-Martin became an overseas collectivity on 22 February 2007.
COM of Wallis and Futuna (14,944 inhabitants), which still is divided according to the three traditional chiefdoms.
COM of Saint Barthélemy (6,852 inhabitants). It was previously a commune inside the Guadeloupe region. The commune structure was abolished when Saint-Barthélemy became an overseas collectivity on 22 February 2007.
Furthermore, two regions without permanent habitation have no communes:
TOM (territoire d'outre-mer, i.e. overseas territory) of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (no permanent population, about 200 resident scientists, soldiers and meteorologists)
Clipperton Island in the Pacific Ocean (uninhabited)
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000637
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(bivalve)
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Venus (bivalve)
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Common name
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Venus (bivalve) / Common name
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Venus is a genus of small to large saltwater clams in the family Veneridae, which is sometimes known as the Venus clams and their relatives. These are marine bivalve molluscs.
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The common names of clams in this genus often include the name Venus. A few species that still have "Venus" as part of their common name, but which are no longer in the genus Venus are:
Sunray Venus, Macrocallista nimbosa (Lightfoot)
Cross-barred Venus, Chione cancellata (Linnaeus)
Lady-in-waiting Venus, Chione intapurpurea (Conrad)
Imperial Venus, Lirophora latilirata (Conrad)
Grey pygmy Venus, Chione grus (Holmes)
Striped Venus clam, Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Elegant Venus clam, Pitar dione (Linnaeus, 1758)
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000638
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
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Unix
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Free Unix and Unix-like variants
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Unix / Impact / Free Unix and Unix-like variants
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Unix is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
Initially intended for use inside the Bell System, AT&T licensed Unix to outside parties in the late 1970s, leading to a variety of both academic and commercial Unix variants from vendors including University of California, Berkeley, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, HP/HPE, and IBM. In the early 1990s, AT&T sold its rights in Unix to Novell, which then sold its Unix business to the Santa Cruz Operation in 1995. The UNIX trademark passed to The Open Group, a neutral industry consortium founded in 1996, which allows the use of the mark for certified operating systems that comply with the Single UNIX Specification. However, Novell continues to own the Unix copyrights, which the SCO Group, Inc. v. Novell, Inc. court case confirmed.
Unix systems are characterized by a modular design that is sometimes called the "Unix philosophy".
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In 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU (short for "GNU's Not Unix") project, an ambitious effort to create a free software Unix-like system; "free" in the sense that everyone who received a copy would be free to use, study, modify, and redistribute it. The GNU project's own kernel development project, GNU Hurd, had not yet produced a working kernel, but in 1991 Linus Torvalds released the kernel Linux as free software under the GNU General Public License. In addition to their use in the GNU operating system, many GNU packages – such as the GNU Compiler Collection (and the rest of the GNU toolchain), the GNU C library and the GNU core utilities – have gone on to play central roles in other free Unix systems as well.
Linux distributions, consisting of the Linux kernel and large collections of compatible software have become popular both with individual users and in business. Popular distributions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Mandriva Linux, Slackware Linux, Arch Linux and Gentoo.
A free derivative of BSD Unix, 386BSD, was released in 1992 and led to the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects. With the 1994 settlement of a lawsuit brought against the University of California and Berkeley Software Design Inc. (USL v. BSDi) by Unix System Laboratories, it was clarified that Berkeley had the right to distribute BSD Unix for free if it so desired. Since then, BSD Unix has been developed in several different product branches, including OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD.
Linux and BSD are increasingly filling the market needs traditionally served by proprietary Unix operating systems, as well as expanding into new markets such as the consumer desktop and mobile and embedded devices. Because of the modular design of the Unix model, sharing components is relatively common; consequently, most or all Unix and Unix-like systems include at least some BSD code, and some systems also include GNU utilities in their distributions.
In a 1999 interview, Dennis Ritchie voiced his opinion that Linux and BSD operating systems are a continuation of the basis of the Unix design, and are derivatives of Unix:
I think the Linux phenomenon is quite delightful, because it draws so strongly on the basis that Unix provided. Linux seems to be the among the healthiest of the direct Unix derivatives, though there are also the various BSD systems as well as the more official offerings from the workstation and mainframe manufacturers.
In the same interview, he states that he views both Unix and Linux as "the continuation of ideas that were started by Ken and me and many others, many years ago".
OpenSolaris was the open-source counterpart to Solaris developed by Sun Microsystems, which included a CDDL-licensed kernel and a primarily GNU userland. However, Oracle discontinued the project upon their acquisition of Sun, which prompted a group of former Sun employees and members of the OpenSolaris community to fork OpenSolaris into the illumos kernel. As of 2014, illumos remains the only active open-source System V derivative.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000639
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_routes_of_City_of_Buffalo_streetcars
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List of routes of City of Buffalo streetcars
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Introduction
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List of routes of City of Buffalo streetcars
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wit-train-topic-000000640
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantaro_River
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Mantaro River
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Introduction
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Mantaro River
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The Mantaro River (Spanish: Río Mantaro, Quechua: Hatunmayu) is a long river running through the central region of Peru. Its Quechua name means "great river". The word "Mantaro" may be a word originally from the Ashaninka language, who live downstream along the Ene River. The Mantaro, along with the Apurimac River, are the sources of the Amazon River, depending on the criteria used for definition.
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wit-train-topic-000000641
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Vellert
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Dirck Vellert
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Introduction
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Dirck Vellert
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Dirck Vellert (1480, Amsterdam – 1547, Antwerp), was a Flemish Renaissance painter.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000642
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Holcomb
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Alison Holcomb
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Introduction
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Alison Holcomb
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Alison Holcomb has served as criminal justice director of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Washington and in 2014 was named national director of the ACLU Campaign to End Mass Incarceration. Holcomb wrote Initiative 502, which legalized recreational cannabis in Washington, has been called "Pot Mama". In her role as director of the Campaign to End Mass Incarceration, she will work "to reform state-level criminal justice policies that have increased incarceration rates dramatically during a period of declining crime and have exacerbated racial disparities".
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000643
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenwood_House
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Kenwood House
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Artwork
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Kenwood House / Artwork
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Kenwood House is a former stately home, in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath.
The house was originally constructed in the 17th century and served as a residence for the Earls of Mansfield through the 18th and 19th centuries. Part of the estate was bought by the Guinness family in the early 20th century, and the whole property and grounds came under ownership of the London County Council and was open to the public by the end of the 1920s. It remains a popular local tourist attraction.
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Kenwood House contains a significant number of historic paintings and other works of art, including 63 Old Master paintings. Paintings of note include
The Guitar Player by Johannes Vermeer
Self Portrait with Two Circles, a late Rembrandt self-portrait
Portrait of Pieter van den Broecke, by Frans Hals
Thomas Gainsborough, 'Portrait of Countess Howe' (wife of Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe)
Edwin Henry Landseer, 'Hunting in the Olden Times'
Other painters include
Joshua Reynolds, 'The Hon'ble Mrs Tollemache as Miranda'
Angelica Kauffman
John Crome
Claude de Jongh
George Morland
Anthony van Dyck
William Larkin
J. M. W. Turner
Arthur Boyd Houghton
François Boucher
Thomas Lawrence, 'Miss Murray'
Henry Raeburn
George Romney
Jan Baptist Weenix
Joseph Wright
Most of the works were acquired by Iveagh in the 1880s–1890s and are mainly Old Master portraits, landscapes and 17th century Dutch and Flemish works and British artists. Others were not part of the Iveagh Bequest but were added to the collection after his death because of a connection with Kenwood House.
There is also a collection of shoe buckles, jewellery and portrait miniatures.
In 2002, a selection of the Suffolk Collection of Stuart portraits was moved to Kenwood from Ranger's House, Greenwich.
In 2012, an exhibition of works from the art collection, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London began a tour of museums in the United States while Kenwood House was undergoing renovations; many of the works had never been outside Britain. The exhibit opened 6 June 2013 in Little Rock, Arkansas at the Arkansas Arts Center.
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wit-train-topic-000000644
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia%E2%80%93Sierra_Leone_relations
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Liberia–Sierra Leone relations
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Introduction
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Liberia–Sierra Leone relations
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Liberia – Sierra Leone relations refers to the historical and current relationship between Liberia and Sierra Leone. The two countries signed a non-aggression pact in 2007 when Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma took office. In January 2011, an African diplomat described relations as "cordial".
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wit-train-topic-000000645
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson,_Kentucky
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Henderson, Kentucky
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18th century
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Henderson, Kentucky / History / 18th century
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Henderson is a home rule-class city along the Ohio River and is the county seat of Henderson County in western Kentucky in the United States. The population was 28,757 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is part of the Evansville Metropolitan Area, locally known as the "Tri-State Area". It is considered the southernmost suburb of Evansville, Indiana.
Notable residents have included the ornithologist, naturalist, and painter John James Audubon and blues legend W. C. Handy.
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Henderson has its roots in a small, block-wide strip of land high above the Ohio River, the site of the present-day Audubon Mill Park directly south of the city's riverfront boat dock. A village on this site was called "Red Banks" because of the reddish clay soil of the bluffs overlooking the Ohio River. The future city was named after Richard Henderson, an eighteenth-century pioneer and land speculator, by his associates Samuel Hopkins and Thomas Allin. Henderson County also shares this namesake. On March 17, 1775, North Carolina judge Richard Henderson and his Transylvania Company had met with 1,200 Cherokee in a council at Sycamore Shoals (present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee) to purchase over 17,000,000 acres (69,000 km²) of land between the Ohio, Cumberland, and Kentucky rivers in present-day Kentucky and Tennessee to resell it to white settlers. Known as the Transylvania Purchase, the sale was voided by the Virginia General Assembly, since the territory (and the sole right to purchase land from Indians within its bounds) was part of Virginia's royal charter. However, the commonwealth granted Henderson and his company an area of 200,000 acres (810 km²) to develop. It was located at the confluence of the Green and Ohio rivers. Henderson hired Daniel Boone to survey the country and select favorable sites, but Henderson died before the town was developed.
By the early 1790s, Red Banks had a tavern and several European-American families co-existing with the local Cherokee. On November 16, 1792, resident Robert Simpson wrote to Alexander D. Orr in Lexington, requesting help to appoint a magistrate for Red Banks to deal with some of its 30 families he felt were of dubious (criminal) character. During this period, the Red Banks settlement had gained notoriety as a frontier haven for westward-moving outlaws and their families. One such family was that of Squire Samuel Mason. By that time, excluding the Cherokee, the free male inhabitants of Red Bank totaled 62. Later, in 1797, Captain Young of Mercer County, Kentucky and the "Exterminators", a group of regulators under his leadership swiftly and violently drove out the remaining outlaw element in Red Banks.
Samuel Hopkins and the surveyor Thomas Allin visited Red Banks in 1797 and laid out plans for the future town of Henderson. It was formally established by the Kentucky legislature the same year. A distinguishing characteristic of the new town plan was unusually wide streets, reportedly to prevent a fire in one block from easily spreading to another. Even with diagonal parking spaces outlined on downtown streets today, the streets are wide enough to include two-way traffic and space left over for delivery trucks to park in the center of the streets without interfering. By October 29, 1799, a census for the city of Henderson showed a population of 183. The county had 423 residents, 207 slaves, and 412 horses.
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wit-train-topic-000000647
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Pacific_typhoon_season
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1990 Pacific typhoon season
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Typhoon Dot (Loleng)
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1990 Pacific typhoon season / Systems / Typhoon Dot (Loleng)
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The 1990 Pacific typhoon season was another active season. It has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1990, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1990 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.
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Typhoon Dot formed from a monsoon trough to the southwest of Guam. Dot moved steadily towards the northwest and strengthened into a typhoon. Typhoon Dot reached peak intensity of 85 mph before weakening slight before landfall on eastern Taiwan on the 7th of September. After passing Taiwan Dot regained typhoon intensity in the Formosa Strait before making a final landfall in Fujian Province, China. On northern Luzon Island rains from Typhoon Dot caused floods killing 4 people, on Taiwan 3 people died.
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wit-train-topic-000000648
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_grove
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Sacred grove
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Ancient Near East
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Sacred grove / In history / Ancient Near East
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A sacred grove or sacred woods are any grove of trees that are of special religious importance to a particular culture. Sacred groves feature in various cultures throughout the world. They were important features of the mythological landscape and cult practice of Celtic, Baltic, Germanic, ancient Greek, Near Eastern, Roman, and Slavic polytheism, and continue to occur in locations such as India, Japan, and West Africa. Examples of sacred groves include the Greco-Roman temenos, various Germanic words for sacred groves, and the Celtic nemeton, which was largely but not exclusively associated with Druidic practice. During the Northern Crusades, there was a common practice of building churches on the sites of sacred groves. The Lakota and various other North American tribes consider particular forests or other natural landmarks to be sacred. Singular trees which a community deems to hold religious significance are known as sacred trees.
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There are two mentions on this tradition in the Bible:
Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there the name of God.
—Genesis 21:33
and
where the women wove hangings for the grove.
—II Kings 23:7
Excavations at Labraunda have revealed a large shrine assumed to be that of Zeus Stratios mentioned by Herodotus as a large sacred grove of plane trees sacred to Carians. In Syria, there was a grove sacred to Adonis at Afqa.
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wit-train-topic-000000649
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_of_Petrograd
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Benjamin of Petrograd
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Arrest and execution
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Benjamin of Petrograd / Arrest and execution
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Benjamin of Petrograd born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky was a hieromartyr, a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church and eventually Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov from 1917 to 1922. He was martyred, executed by a firing squad by Soviet authorities. In April 1992 Benjamin was glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church together with several other martyrs, including Archimandrite Sergius, Professor Yury Novitsky, and John Kovsharov, who were murdered with him.
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On 24 March twelve priests broke ranks with the other clergy, whom they called counter-revolutionaries and blamed for the famine, and called for unconditional surrender of all Church valuables to the Soviets. This led to outrage which Benjamin tried to calm, asking for a meeting with the authorities leading to an agreement that parishes would be permitted to keep their sacred vessels if they substituted other property of equal value. This pacified the situation until some priests tried to wrest control of the Church from Patriarch Tikhon and the established hierarchy. Benjamin excommunicated his priests involved with the coup which enraged the Soviets who threatened Benjamin with his and others' arrest and execution. Benjamin reacted by commencing meeting with his friends in order to say farewell and giving instructions for the administration of the diocese.
In April and May 1922, a number of churchmen were arrested and tried as counter-revolutionaries for opposing the seizure of church valuables. Benjamin was placed under house arrest on 29 May and subsequently imprisoned after he had opposed efforts by Alexander Vvedensky to establish the renovationist All-Russian Church Administration as the new church government after Patriarch Tikhon abdicated on 12 May. Benjamin was tried by a revolutionary tribunal with ten other defendants from 10 June to 5 July. As Benjamin entered the courtroom for his trial, people stood up for him and he blessed them. The defendants were found guilty and condemned to death, but the sentences of six of the defendants were later commuted by the Politburo, though not of Benjamin and others seen as the main instigators of counterrevolution. The defendants were given a chance to speak, and Benjamin addressed the court saying it grieved him to be called an enemy of the people whom he had always loved and to whom he had dedicated his life.
During the night of 12–13 August [O.S. 30–31 July] 1922 after having been shaved and dressed in rags so that the firing squad would not know that they were shooting members of the clergy, Benjamin and those with him, Archimandrite Sergius, Yury Novitsky, and John Kovsharov, were executed in the eastern outskirts of Petrograd, at the Porokhov Station of the Irinovskaya Railroad (a narrow-gauge railroad built to bring peat into the city for heating that starts in the Bolshaya Okhta district of St. Petersburg, across the Neva River from the Smolny Institute and ending at Vsevolozhsk 24 kilometres (15 mi) east of the city.)
Benjamin's cenotaph is in the Nikolskoe Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra; the Decree of Canonization directs for Benjamin and others "That their precious remains, should they have been found, shall be considered holy relics."
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wit-train-topic-000000651
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
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Erwin Rommel
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Posthumous honours
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Erwin Rommel / Posthumous honours
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Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.
Rommel was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Pour le Mérite for his actions on the Italian Front. In 1937 he published his classic book on military tactics, Infantry Attacks, drawing on his experiences in that war. In World War II, he distinguished himself as the commander of the 7th Panzer Division during the 1940 invasion of France. His leadership of German and Italian forces in the North African campaign established his reputation as one of the ablest tank commanders of the war, and earned him the nickname der Wüstenfuchs, "the Desert Fox". Among his British adversaries he had a reputation for chivalry, and his phrase "war without hate" has been used to describe the North African campaign.
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The German Army's largest base, the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf, is named in his honour; at the dedication in 1961 his widow Lucie and son Manfred Rommel were guests of honour. The Rommel Barracks, Dornstadt, was also named for him in 1965. A third base named for him, the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Osterode, closed in 2004. A German Navy Lütjens-class destroyer, Rommel, was named for him in 1969 and christened by his widow; the ship was decommissioned in 1998.
Numerous streets in Germany, especially in Rommel's home state of Baden-Württemberg, are named in his honor, including the street near where his last home was located. The Rommel Memorial was erected in Heidenheim in 1961. The Rommel Museum opened in 1989 in the Villa Lindenhof in Herrlingen; there is also a Rommel Museum in Mersa Matruh in Egypt which opened in 1977, and which is located in one of Rommel's former headquarters; various other localities and establishments in Mersa Matruh, including Rommel Beach, are also named for Rommel. The reason for the naming is that he respected the Bedouins' traditions and the sanctity of their homes (he always kept his troops at least 2 kilometers from their houses) and refused to poison the wells against the Allies, fearing doing so would harm the population.
In Italy, the annual marathon tour "Rommel Trail", which is sponsored by the Protezione Civile and the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia through its tourism agency, celebrates Rommel and the Battle of Caporetto. The naming and sponsoring (at that time by the center-left PD) was criticized by the politician Giuseppe Civati in 2017.
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wit-train-topic-000000652
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_of_interest_in_Greater_Manchester
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List of places of interest in Greater Manchester
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Tameside
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List of places of interest in Greater Manchester / Tameside
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This is a list of places of interest in the British county of Greater Manchester. See List of places in Greater Manchester for a list of settlements in Greater Manchester.
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wit-train-topic-000000653
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_the_Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System
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Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
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Finishing the line
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Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System / Finishing the line
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The construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System included over 800 miles of oil pipeline, 12 pump stations, and a new tanker port. Built largely on permafrost during 1975–77 between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez, Alaska, the $8 billion effort required tens of thousands of people, often working in extreme temperatures and conditions, the invention of specialized construction techniques, and the construction of a new road, the Dalton Highway.
The first section of pipe was laid in 1975 after more than five years of legal and political arguments. Allegations of faulty welds drew intense scrutiny from local and national observers. A culture grew around the unique working conditions involved in constructing the pipeline, and each union that worked on the project had a different function and stereotype. Thirty-two Alyeska Pipeline Service Company employees and contract workers were killed during the project. The main construction effort lasted until 1977; the first barrel of oil was delivered on July 28 of that year. Several more pump stations, added as oil flow increased, were completed through 1980.
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Few tasks were left to complete when the 1977 construction season began. Most of the pump stations had been turned over to operating personnel by construction workers, and environmental mitigation and cleanup was in full swing as Alyeska repaired tundra damage caused by construction. Associated-Green, which had performed its construction tasks well, was assigned the job of finishing the final touches on the main pipeline. The last 160 miles of hydrostatic testing were done, 33 remedial welds were completed, and 45 miles of pipe were insulated, among other tasks. Because the pace of construction was much slower than in 1976, fewer workers were needed. Fewer than 11,000 were employed at the peak of 1977 work, about half of 1976's total. On May 31, the final pipeline weld took place.
Additional tasks remained still to be completed, but the pipeline could be put into operation without them. The 2,290-foot (700 m) E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge was not completed until October 1979; until then, traffic utilized a series of ferries across the river. Additional pump stations also were constructed between 1977 and 1980, as oil flow increased.
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wit-train-topic-000000654
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_of_Aargau
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Canton of Aargau
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Forming the canton of Aargau
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Canton of Aargau / History / Forming the canton of Aargau
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The canton of Aargau is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. It is situated by the lower course of the Aare River, which is why the canton is called Aar-gau. It is one of the most densely populated regions of Switzerland.
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The contemporary canton of Aargau was formed in 1803, a canton of the Swiss Confederation as a result of the Act of Mediation. It was a combination of three short-lived cantons of the Helvetic Republic: Aargau (1798–1803), Baden (1798–1803) and Fricktal (1802–1803). Its creation is therefore rooted in the Napoleonic era. In the year 2003, the canton of Aargau celebrated its 200th anniversary.
French forces occupied the Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau and the remainder formed the canton of Baden. Aborted plans to merge the two halves came in 1801 and 1802, and they were eventually united under the name Aargau, which was then admitted as a full member of the reconstituted Confederation following the Act of Mediation. Some parts of the canton of Baden at this point were transferred to other cantons: the Amt of Hitzkirch to Lucerne, whilst Hüttikon, Oetwil an der Limmat, Dietikon and Schlieren went to Zürich. In return, Lucerne's Amt of Merenschwand was transferred to Aargau (district of Muri).
The Fricktal, ceded in 1802 by Austria via Napoleonic France to the Helvetic Republic, was briefly a separate canton of the Helvetic Republic (the canton of Fricktal) under a Statthalter ('Lieutenant'), but on 19 March 1803 (following the Act of Mediation) was incorporated into the canton of Aargau.
The former cantons of Baden and Fricktal can still be identified with the contemporary districts – the canton of Baden is covered by the districts of Zurzach, Baden, Bremgarten, and Muri (albeit with the gains and losses of 1803 detailed above); the canton of Fricktal by the districts of Rheinfelden and Laufenburg (except for Hottwil which was transferred to that district in 2010).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Este_(river)
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Este (river)
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Introduction
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Este (river)
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The Este (German pronunciation ) (Low Saxon: Eest) is a 63.6-kilometre-long (39.5 mi) left-bank tributary of the river Elbe that flows through Lower Saxony and Hamburg, Germany.
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wit-train-topic-000000656
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Gas_Corporation
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United Gas Corporation
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Rapid Rise
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United Gas Corporation / Rapid Rise
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United Gas Corporation was a major oil company from its inception in 1930 to its hostile takeover and subsequent forced merger with Pennzoil in 1968. Headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, United and its major subsidiaries, Union Producing Company, United Gas Pipeline Company, Atlas Processing, UGC Instruments, and Duval Mining, performed integrated exploration, production, processing, and distribution of oil and natural gas and other raw materials. Second only to Gulf Oil in size and scope, United Gas was one of the first natural gas transmission companies. In 1968, United was merged into Pennzoil, and the firm was renamed Pennzoil United, Inc. The retail gas distribution assets of United were spun off into Entex Energy in 1970. United Gas Pipeline stock was distributed to Pennzoil shareholders in 1974, and that company was eventually restructured as United Energy Resources, Inc., which was, in turn, acquired by Midcon Corporation.
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In the 1930s, an FTC investigation revealed that four dominant holding companies controlled 60% of natural gas produced and 58% of total pipeline mileage. One of these big four companies was the United Gas Corporation. On January 19, 1940, United Gas Pipe Line Company became the first pipeline company to handle 1,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas in one day.
United proved to be a pioneer in the gas delivery industry. To provide raw supplies to its markets, United and its pipeline contractors pioneered the construction of natural-gas gathering lines across marshlands and open water. In 1941, United Gas and Houston firm, Brown & Root built the first large-diameter submarine pipeline, spanning 25 miles across Lake Pontchartrain, near New Orleans. The techniques employed by United and Brown & Root became industry standard. United then turned its attention offshore, extending its pipeline to Eugene Island south of St. Mary Parish.
The Post-World War II era saw United's rise accelerate, as regional markets for cheap natural gas appeared and expanded. By 1947, United Gas was the largest gas company in the Southwest. In that same year, several United employees left the company to form Texas Eastern Transmission Co., including manager, Reginald Hargrove, general counsel, George Naff, and assistant chief engineer, Baxter Goodrich. Texas Eastern became a dominant pipeline player in its own right, and, in exchange for releasing the employees, United was guaranteed another market for its gas production and supply. The close relationship between the two companies would interest the Justice Department over the ensuing years. Hargrove would ultimately perish in a tragic airplane accident, occurring when a seaplane owned by United Gas crashed into the treetops outside of Shreveport during the return from a three-day duck hunting trip hosted by United Gas. The crash killed 12 people, including six prominent Shreveporters and Dallas resident Thomas E. Braniff, president of Braniff Airways. Shreveport leaders killed in the crash were Hargrove, financier Justin R. Querbes, Sr., Interstate Electric President Randolph Querbes, Sr., Atlas Processing Chairman John B. Atkins, Sr., Goldring’s Vice President E. Bernard Weiss, and independent oil producer J.P. Evans.
Henry Goodrich, another United Gas alumnus employed by subsidiary Union Producing as an exploration geologist, would go on to form Goodrich Petroleum Corporation.
On July 6, 1949, United Gas Corporation was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with an initial listing of 10,700,000 shares. By the early 1950s, United Gas owned and operated an extensive pipeline system stretching across the Gulf South. Annual reports indicated that, in 1953, United owned and operated more than 9,000 field and transmission lines that distributed more than 800,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas annually to 309 cities, towns, and communities. Of the approximately 18 pipeline systems built in the region, United owned five.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bess%C3%A8ges_station
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Bessèges station
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Introduction
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Bessèges station
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Bessèges is a former railway station in Bessèges, Occitanie, France. The station is located on the Bessèges–Robiac railway. The station was served by TER (local) services to Alès operated by the SNCF. It was closed in 2012.
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wit-train-topic-000000658
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_Kitchens
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Magnet Kitchens
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Magnet
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Magnet Kitchens / Operations / Magnet
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Magnet is a British kitchen retailer operating in over two hundred locations across the United Kingdom supplying products under the Magnet and Magnet Trade brands. The company has over 2,000 employees and its headquarters are in Darlington, County Durham.
Magnet was listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but is now part of Nobia UK, a division of the Nobia group which is listed on the Swedish Stock Exchange.' The Nobia division also includes brands such as Gower and Norema.
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Magnet supplies kitchens to retail consumers via 170 showrooms. The company primarily targets the middle market, and offers a wide variety of kitchen designs together with a comprehensive range of worktops, sinks and taps, electrical appliances and kitchen accessories.
Other services offered include a home survey, free CAD planning, expert installation and a post installation visit. The company's Full Circle Service process guides customers throughout the kitchen buying process from design through to installation.
In 2003, Magnet's retail showroom concept won Best UK Retail Interior by Retail Interiors Magazine, and has subsequently refurbished the majority of its estate in line with this footprint. Magnet was the first national kitchen retailer to achieve Trustmark accreditation, a scheme designed to drive out the cowboys in the home improvement sector.
Trustmark provides customers with a two-year guarantee on installation and payment protection.
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wit-train-topic-000000659
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Basil
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Sam Basil
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Introduction
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Sam Basil
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Sam Basil (born 16 November 1969) is a Papua New Guinean politician. He has been a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea since 2007, representing the electorate of Bulolo Open. From 8 June 2019, to August 2019 Basil served as the Treasurer of Papua New Guinea.
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wit-train-topic-000000660
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Naito
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Tetsuya Naito
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No Limit (2010–2011)
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Tetsuya Naito / Professional wrestling career / Return to NJPW / No Limit (2010–2011)
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Tetsuya Naito is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is the leader of the Los Ingobernables de Japon faction. He is currently both the IWGP Heavyweight Champion in his third reign, and the IWGP Intercontinental Champion in his sixth reign.
Naito began training for a professional wrestling career in 2000, initially under Animal Hamaguchi, before joining NJPW in 2004, where he underwent further training. Naito is a former NEVER Openweight Champion. In doing so, he became the first Triple Crown Champion in NJPW. He also held the IWGP Tag Team and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with former partner Yujiro Takahashi, with whom he teamed as No Limit. In addition to those, Naito is also a two-time winner of NJPW's premier singles tournament, the G1 Climax, having won it in 2013 and 2017, and the New Japan Cup, winning it in 2016. In 2016 and 2017, Tokyo Sports named Naito the wrestler of the year. In 2020, Naito became the first person to hold both the IWGP Intercontinental and Heavyweight Champion, and became a record six-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion.
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On December 5, 2009, NJPW announced that Yujiro and Naito were returning to Japan as part of their annual January 4 Tokyo Dome show called Wrestle Kingdom IV in Tokyo Dome. At the event Yujiro and Naito defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) and Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) in a three-way hardcore match to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship. No Limit had their first title defense on February 14, 2010, defeating El Texano, Jr. and El Terrible to retain the title. On April 4 at New Dimension No Limit joined New Japan's top heel stable Chaos, led by the IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinsuke Nakamura. On May 3, 2010, at Wrestling Dontaku 2010 Naito and Takahashi lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to Yuji Nagata and Wataru Inoue of Seigigun in a three-way match, which also included Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson).
After losing the title, Tetsuya began breaking out on his own, scoring pinfall victories over the reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion Togi Makabe, IWGP Tag Team Champion Karl Anderson and former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Manabu Nakanishi and wrestling four-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi to a 30-minute time limit draw during the 2010 G1 Climax tournament, while also having another strong showing against Tanahashi in a losing effort at Destruction '10 on October 11. On October 24 No Limit entered the 2010 G1 Tag League. After three wins and two losses, they finished first in their block and advanced to the semifinals. On November 7, after defeating Manabu Nakanishi and Strong Man in the semifinals, No Limit was defeated in the finals of the tournament by Yuji Nagata and Wataru Inoue. On December 11, 2010, No Limit picked up a major win by defeating the TNA World Tag Team Champions, The Motor City Machine Guns, in a non–title match. On January 4, 2011, at Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome, Naito unsuccessfully challenged Jeff Hardy for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. On May 3, No Limit failed in their attempt to regain the IWGP Tag Team Championship from Bad Intentions. After the match Takahashi walked out on Naito.
In May 2011 Naito took part in New Japan's first tour of the United States, the Invasion Tour 2011. On May 13 in Rahway, New Jersey, he entered the tournament to determine the first ever IWGP Intercontinental Champion, defeating local worker Josh Daniels in his first round match. The following day in New York City, Naito was eliminated from the tournament in the semifinal stage by MVP. Upon their return to Japan, Takahashi turned on Naito on May 26, effectively dissolving No Limit and turning Naito face.
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wit-train-topic-000000662
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar_Conservatives
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Gibraltar Conservatives
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2009
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Gibraltar Conservatives / History / 2009
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The Conservative Party in Gibraltar is the part of the Conservative Party that operates in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is a branch of the South West Region of the Conservative Party. The party does not field candidates in the local elections in the territory, and only stands candidates for the European Parliament constituency of South West England and Gibraltar.
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The Conservatives won with 51% of the votes.
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wit-train-topic-000000663
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Refining_Company
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United Refining Company
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References
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United Refining Company / References
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The United Refining Company is an oil company in Warren, Pennsylvania. The company operates an oil refinery in Warren that can process 70,000 barrels of oil into gasoline, diesel fuel and other petroleum distillates per day. It distributes gasoline under the Kwik Fill and Keystone brands.
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Carroll, Jim (May 10, 2007). "United Refining hikes capacity". Erie Times-News.
Martin, Jim (January 1, 2002). "Warren, Pa.-based United Refining buys convenience store chain Country Fair". Erie Times-News.
Carroll, Jim (October 11, 2006). "Comments spark call for Citgo boycott". Erie Times-News.
Associated Press. "Citgo signs coming down in response to Venezuelan leader's remarks". WSTM-TV. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2007.
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wit-train-topic-000000664
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_City,_Ohio
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Junction City, Ohio
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Introduction
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Junction City, Ohio
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Junction City is a village in Perry County, Ohio, United States. The population was 819 at the 2010 census.
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wit-train-topic-000000665
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Va%C5%A1e
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Vaše
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Introduction
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Vaše
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Vaše ([ˈʋaːʃɛ]) is a settlement on the right bank of the Sora River just before its confluence with the Sava River at Medvode in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.
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wit-train-topic-000000666
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noordwijk
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Noordwijk
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Personalities and public figures in Noordwijk
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Noordwijk / Personalities and public figures in Noordwijk
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Noordwijk is a town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 51.45 km² of which 15.97 km² is water and had a population of 42,859 in 2019.
On 1 January 2019, the former municipality of Noordwijkerhout became part of Noordwijk.
Besides its beaches, Noordwijk is also known for its bulb flower fields. It is located in an area called the "Dune and Bulb Region".
Noordwijk is also the location of the headquarters for the European Space Research and Technology Centre, part of the European Space Agency. ESA's visitors' centre Space Expo is a permanent space exhibition.
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Public figures who lived in Noordwijk or sought recovery were Thomas Mann, Maria Montessori (buried in Noordwijk) among others, the entrepreneur Alfred Heineken, ex-Empress Soraya, the poet Henriette Roland Holst, the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the writer Stefan George, the pianist Pia Beck , the tenor Jacques Urlus, the writer Margriet de Moor as well as painters and artists such as Marinus Gidding, Gerard van der Laan, Max Liebermann, Daniël Noteboom, Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller and known film actors.
The landscape painter Ludolph Berkemeier (buried in Noordwijk) moved in 1896 to Noordwijk. His paintings are in the style of the Hague School.
Noordwijk is also home of football coach Louis van Gaal.
In March 2014, the US President Barack Obama and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping stayed in Noordwijk
Part of Martin Ritt's adaptation of John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), starring Richard Burton, was filmed at Koningin Astrid Boulevard in Noordwijk. This is where Burton's character Alec Leamas is taken for initial interrogation after appearing to defect to the East.
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wit-train-topic-000000667
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_%26_Thomas
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Howell & Thomas
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Introduction
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Howell & Thomas
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Howell & Thomas was an American architectural partnership formed by Carl Howell and J. William Thomas in Columbus, Ohio and later Cleveland, Ohio, that designed many residences for wealthy clients between 1908 and 1930. The partners were classmates at University of Pennsylvania and first established their practice in Columbus, Ohio. They designed homes for the Euclid Golf subdivision along Fairmont Boulevard in Cleveland Heights, built on the site of John D. Rockefeller's once private course.
A number of their works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Works include:
Broad Street Apartments, 880–886 E. Broad St. Columbus, OH (Howell & Thomas), NRHP-listed
Gannett Building, 55 Exchange St. Rochester, NY (Howell & Thomas), NRHP-listed
Labold House and Gardens, 633 Fourth St. Portsmouth, OH (Howell & Thomas), NRHP-listed
Saint Philip's Episcopal Church, 129 W. Mound St. Circleville, OH (Howell & Thomas), NRHP-listed
Zanesville YWCA, 49 N. 6th St. Zanesville, OH (Howell & Thomas), NRHP-listed
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wit-train-topic-000000668
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoeta_Stadium
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Anoeta Stadium
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History and uses
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Anoeta Stadium / History and uses
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Anoeta Stadium, currently known as the Reale Arena for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain that was inaugurated in 1993.
The stadium lies at the Anoeta Sports Complex, and is mostly used for football matches where La Liga side Real Sociedad contest their home games. The total seating capacity of the stadium, which was originally 32,000, was restricted to around 26,800 due to redevelopment works; its capacity for the September 2019 completion has been quoted as 39,500 seats, making it the 11th-largest stadium in Spain and the 2nd-largest in the Basque Country.
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It is the third home stadium of Real Sociedad preceded by Ondarreta (1909–1913), and Atocha (1913–1993). The external concourse area features a bust of the late Alberto Ormaetxea, the club's manager during their successful early 1980s period.
Real Sociedad's Basque rivals, Athletic Bilbao, were also permitted to use Anoeta for their first home game of the 2013–14 La Liga season, as their own new ground (San Mames) was still under construction. The stadium has also occasionally hosted matches of the Basque Country national football team.
In recent years, it has also been used for concerts, and for occasional Heineken Cup rugby union fixtures by nearby Top 14 club Biarritz Olympique (based in France but very near to San Sebastian). Since the 2009–10 Top 14 season, both Biarritz and fellow Pays Basque club Aviron Bayonnais took home matches to the Anoeta, which is the closest large stadium to their towns.
Four of the unofficial Basque Country team's friendly fixtures have been held at the stadium (1993, 1998, 2004, 2012).\
When the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League quarterfinals and on were held in the Basque Country, the Anoeta hosted the final.
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wit-train-topic-000000669
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Knight
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James L. Knight
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James L. Knight
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James Landon Knight (July 21, 1909 – February 5, 1991) was an American newspaper publisher and co-founder of the Knight Ridder group of newspapers.
He was also co-founder of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation with his brother John S. Knight.
The James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida is named in his honor.
He caught a then-record 585-pound blue marlin in 1964 on a fishing trip that saw the sinking of the family's 75-foot pleasure boat.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_barrios_and_sectors_of_Arecibo,_Puerto_Rico
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List of barrios and sectors of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
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Garrochales
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List of barrios and sectors of Arecibo, Puerto Rico / List of sectors by barrio / Garrochales
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Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Arecibo is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are like minor civil divisions. The barrios and subbarrios, in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores. The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others. Some sectors appear in two barrios.
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Comunidad San Luis
Sector Bethania
Sector Bosque Cambalache
Sector El Alto
Sector El Salao
Sector Factor II
Sector La PRRA
Sector Noriega
Sector Sabana
Sector Salao
Sector San Luis
Urbanización Haciendas de Garrochales
Urbanización Jardines de Bethania
Urbanización Villas de Garrochales
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wit-train-topic-000000672
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Port_of_Marseille
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Old Port of Marseille
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Points of interest around the Old Port
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Old Port of Marseille / Points of interest around the Old Port
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The Old Port of Marseille is at the end of the Canebière, the major street of Marseille. It has been the natural harbour of the city since antiquity and is now the main popular place in Marseille. It became mainly pedestrian in 2013.
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St. Victor's Abbey, on the south side of the Old Port, one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in France.
the Phare de Sainte Marie, a lighthouse.
the Canebière, situated at the far end of the Old Port on the Quai des Belges.
the Hôtel de Ville (town hall).
the historic ferry, plying between opposite sides of the Old Port.
the Roman Dock Museum.
the Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, MUCEM (Museum of European and Mediterranean civilizations)
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wit-train-topic-000000673
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Agust%C3%ADn,_Lima
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Iglesia de San Agustín, Lima
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Introduction
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Iglesia de San Agustín, Lima
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The Basilica and Convent of San Agustín is located in the historic centre of Lima, in front of the square of the same name, and a few blocks from the Plaza Mayor of the capital. Its care is, since its foundation, run by the Augustinian friars, and belongs to the Province of Our Lady of Grace of Peru.
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wit-train-topic-000000674
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Connecticut_state_parks
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List of Connecticut state parks
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Connecticut state forests
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List of Connecticut state parks / Connecticut state forests
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This is a list of state parks and reserves in the Connecticut state park system, shown in four tables. The first table lists state parks and reserves, the second lists state park trails, the third list state forests, and the fourth lists other state-owned, recreation-related areas.
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wit-train-topic-000000675
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyada_Station
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Miyada Station
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Introduction
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Miyada Station
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Miyada Station (宮田駅, Miyada-eki) is a railway station on the Iida Line in the village of Miyada, Kamiina District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central).
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wit-train-topic-000000676
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_School_railway_station
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County School railway station
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Locomotives and diesel units based on the GER (1989) Ltd
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County School railway station / Preservation schemes / Great Eastern Railway (1989) Limited / Locomotives and diesel units based on the GER (1989) Ltd
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County School railway station is on the Mid-Norfolk Railway in Norfolk, England, and will serve the villages of North Elmham and Guist once services resume. It is 17 miles 40 chains down the line from Wymondham and is the northernmost station owned by the Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust.
The station is part of the Wymondham to Wells Branch which closed to passengers in 1964, and the western terminus of the East Norfolk Railway branch to Wroxham, which closed in 1952. The line from Dereham is being gradually restored by the Mid-Norfolk Railway.
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wit-train-topic-000000677
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_Rock_%26_Metal_Singles_Chart_number_ones_of_2011
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List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2011
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Chart history
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List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2011 / Chart history
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The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2011, there were 20 singles that topped the 53 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was 2003's "Christmas Time" by The Darkness, which topped the chart published on Boxing Day 2010. "Christmas Time" was also the final number-one single of the year, topping the final chart of the year published on Christmas Day.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2011 was "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, which spent ten weeks at number one across three different spells. "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence was number one for five weeks in 2011, while the band also topped the chart with "My Immortal" and "What You Want". Muse spent seven weeks at number one with "Feeling Good", as did Foo Fighters with "Walk", "Best of You" and "Arlandria". My Chemical Romance were number one for five weeks in 2011, four of which were with "Sing".
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wit-train-topic-000000678
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Donkey_(Boston)
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Democratic Donkey (Boston)
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Introduction
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Democratic Donkey (Boston)
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A statue of a donkey, sometimes called Democratic Donkey, is installed outside Boston's Old City Hall, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Roger Webb acquired the bronze sculpture in Florence, Italy. It was installed outside Old City Hall in 1998.
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wit-train-topic-000000679
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Piloted_Assembly_and_Experiment_Complex
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Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex
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Modules
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Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex / Modules
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The Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex was a 2009–2017 Russian proposed third-generation modular space station for Low Earth orbit.
The concept was to use OPSEK to assemble components of crewed interplanetary spacecraft destined for Mars, the Moon, and possibly Saturn. The returning crew could also recover on the station before landing on Earth. Thus, in the concept, OPSEK could form part of a future network of stations supporting crewed exploration of the Solar System.
In early plans, the station was to consist initially of several modules from the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station. However, in September 2017, the head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov said that the technical feasibility of separating the station to form OPSEK had been studied and there were now "no plans to separate the Russian segment from the ISS ... We keep the same position, that we should work on the ISS together with our partners."
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Expected Russian Orbital Segment modules around the time of OPSEK separation (2020 or later) arranged by launch dates:
2000, Zvezda (DOS-8) - potential part of OPSEK
2009, Poisk (MRM-2) - potential part of OPSEK
Poisk (Russian: По́иск; lit. Search), also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2), Малый исследовательский модуль 2, or МИМ 2. Poisk is a Russian airlock module with two identical hatches. Its predecessor, Pirs, is used to store, service, and refurbish Russian Orlan suits. The outermost docking ports on both airlocks allow docking of Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, and the automatic transfer of propellants to and from storage on the station.
2020, Nauka (FGB-2) - to form part of OPSEK
Nauka (Russian: Нау́ка; lit. Science), also known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) or FGB-2, (Russian: Многофункциональный лабораторный модуль, or МЛМ), is the major Russian laboratory module. This module will be separated from the ISS before de-orbit with support modules to become the OPSEK space station. It contains an additional set of life support systems and orientation control. Nauka's mission has changed over time; during the mid-1990s it was intended as a backup for the first FGB, and later as a universal docking module (UDM). Its docking ports will be able to support automatic docking of both spacecraft, additional modules and fuel transfer. Prior to the arrival of the MLM, a Progress robotic spacecraft will dock with the ISS PIRS module, depart with that module, and both will be discarded. Nauka will then use its own engines to attach itself to the ROS after 2014. The European Robotic Arm, which will service the Russian Orbital Segment, will be launched alongside the MLM.
2020, Uzlovoy Module - to form part of OPSEK
Node Module (UM)/(NM) This 4-ton ball shaped module will support the docking of two scientific and power modules during the final stage of the station assembly and provide the Russian segment additional docking ports to receive Soyuz TMA (transportation modified anthropometric) and Progress M spacecraft. NM is to be incorporated into the ISS in 2016. It will be integrated with a special version of the Progress cargo ship and launched by a standard Soyuz rocket. The Progress would use its own propulsion and flight control system to deliver and dock the Node Module to the nadir (Earth-facing) docking port of the Nauka MLM/FGB-2 module. One port is equipped with an active hybrid docking port, which enables docking with the MLM module. The remaining five ports are passive hybrids, enabling docking of Soyuz and Progress vehicles, as well as heavier modules and future spacecraft with modified docking systems. More importantly, the node module was conceived to serve as the only permanent element of OPSEK. Equipped with six docking ports, the Node Module would serve as a single permanent core of the future station with all other modules coming and going as their life span and mission required. Uzlovoy will be launched after Nauka MLM; launch dates will be 2017 or later
2022, Science and Power Module 1 (NEM-1) - to form part of OPSEK.
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wit-train-topic-000000680
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont,_Elkhorn_%26_Missouri_Valley_Railroad_Passenger_Depot
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Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot
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Description
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Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot / Description
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The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot, also known as the Chicago and North Western Railway Passenger Depot and presently as the Douglas Railroad Interpretive Center, was built in 1886 in Douglas, Wyoming to accommodate traffic on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad's terminus at the newly built town. The depot was built as a fairly small, cautious investment in a possibly ephemeral frontier town. Immediately following the completion of the depot Douglas saw an epidemic of typhoid fever and the worst winter in a generation, and the railroad decided to push on to Casper for its terminus. The town's population declined from 1600 in 1886 to 900 in 1888. By 1891 Owen Wister reported that Douglas had a population of about 350. However, by 1910 Douglas had 2246 residents and hosted the Wyoming State Fair. The presence of the fair stimulated rail traffic, while the FE&MV merged with the Cheyenne and Northern Railway in 1903. In 1905 oil development started.
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The rectangular frame structure is a typical small railroad depot, measuring about 80 feet (24 m) by 26 feet (7.9 m), built to a standardized railroad plan. Like most such depots, the station has a protruding bay on the long side facing the track to allow the stationmaster to see up and down the line. The interior has five spaces: a waiting room, an office, bathrooms, freight handling and freight storage. The interior woodwork is intact.
The depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 1994. The town has developed the depot as the Douglas Railroad Interpretive Center with displays of locomotives and railroad cars and equipment. The display opened in 1995.
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wit-train-topic-000000681
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Julii
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Tomb of the Julii
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Introduction
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Tomb of the Julii
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The popularly named "Tomb of the Julii" (Mausoleum "M") survives in the Vatican Necropolis beneath St. Peter's Basilica. The serendipitous discovery near the crypt has a vaulted ceiling bearing a mosaic depicting Helios (Roman Sol Invictus) with an aureole riding in his chariot, within a framing of rinceaux of vine leaves, which are not given their usual pagan Dionysiac reading in this context but are related to the True Vine imagery of Gospel of John 15.1. The mosaic is dated to the late 3rd century to early 4th century. Other mosaics in this tomb depicting Jonah and the whale, the good shepherd carrying a lamb (the kriophoros motif), and fishermen have encouraged its interpretation as a Christian tomb.
This tomb was first discovered in 1574 AD when workmen accidentally broke through the ceiling while conducting some floor alterations in the basilica. The inside was briefly explored and documented before the opening was sealed over once more.
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wit-train-topic-000000682
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia
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Asia
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History
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Asia / History
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Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense and large settlements, as well as vast barely populated regions. Its 4.5 billion people constitute roughly 60% of the world's population.
In general terms, Asia is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. The border of Asia with Europe is a historical and cultural construct, as there is no clear physical and geographical separation between them. It is somewhat arbitrary and has moved since its first conception in classical antiquity.
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The history of Asia can be seen as the distinct histories of several peripheral coastal regions: East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, linked by the interior mass of the Central Asian steppes.
The coastal periphery was home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, each of them developing around fertile river valleys. The civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and the Yellow River shared many similarities. These civilizations may well have exchanged technologies and ideas such as mathematics and the wheel. Other innovations, such as writing, seem to have been developed individually in each area. Cities, states and empires developed in these lowlands.
The central steppe region had long been inhabited by horse-mounted nomads who could reach all areas of Asia from the steppes. The earliest postulated expansion out of the steppe is that of the Indo-Europeans, who spread their languages into the Middle East, South Asia, and the borders of China, where the Tocharians resided. The northernmost part of Asia, including much of Siberia, was largely inaccessible to the steppe nomads, owing to the dense forests, climate and tundra. These areas remained very sparsely populated.
The center and the peripheries were mostly kept separated by mountains and deserts. The Caucasus and Himalaya mountains and the Karakum and Gobi deserts formed barriers that the steppe horsemen could cross only with difficulty. While the urban city dwellers were more advanced technologically and socially, in many cases they could do little in a military aspect to defend against the mounted hordes of the steppe. However, the lowlands did not have enough open grasslands to support a large horsebound force; for this and other reasons, the nomads who conquered states in China, India, and the Middle East often found themselves adapting to the local, more affluent societies.
The Islamic Caliphate's defeats of the Byzantine and Persian empires led to West Asia and southern parts of Central Asia and western parts of South Asia under its control during its conquests of the 7th century. The Mongol Empire conquered a large part of Asia in the 13th century, an area extending from China to Europe. Before the Mongol invasion, Song dynasty reportedly had approximately 120 million citizens; the 1300 census which followed the invasion reported roughly 60 million people.
The Black Death, one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, is thought to have originated in the arid plains of central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road.
The Russian Empire began to expand into Asia from the 17th century, and would eventually take control of all of Siberia and most of Central Asia by the end of the 19th century. The Ottoman Empire controlled Anatolia, most of the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans from the mid 16th century onwards. In the 17th century, the Manchu conquered China and established the Qing dynasty. The Islamic Mughal Empire and the Hindu Maratha Empire controlled much of India in the 16th and 18th centuries respectively. The Empire of Japan controlled most of East Asia and much of Southeast Asia, New Guinea and the Pacific islands until the end of World War II.
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wit-train-topic-000000683
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cultural_Properties_of_Japan_-_paintings_(Miyazaki)
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List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Miyazaki)
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Prefectural Cultural Properties
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List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Miyazaki) / Prefectural Cultural Properties
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This list is of the Cultural Properties of Japan designated in the category of paintings for the Prefecture of Miyazaki.
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As of 1 May 2019, four properties have been designated at a prefectural level.
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wit-train-topic-000000684
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Liberal_Democrats_leadership_election
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2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election
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Opening of the campaign
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2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election / Opening of the campaign
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In the 2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Sir Menzies Campbell was elected to succeed Charles Kennedy as Leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom.
On 5 January 2006, following a period of heavy speculation about both his leadership and his personal life, party leader Charles Kennedy called for a leadership contest to allow party members to decide if his leadership should continue. On 7 January 2006, following public pressure from many prominent Liberal Democrats to stand down, including twenty-five Members of Parliament who publicly announced they would refuse to serve on the party's frontbench if he did not stand aside, Kennedy announced that he would not be standing in the leadership election, resigning as party leader with immediate effect.
Four candidates declared their intention to stand: Campbell, then interim leader; home affairs spokesman Mark Oaten; the party's President, Simon Hughes; and treasury spokesman Chris Huhne. Oaten garnered little support from colleagues and withdrew from the contest, confessing two days later to a sexual relationship with a male prostitute.
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When Kennedy called the election, no one else declared themselves as candidates, with several possible contenders explicitly saying they would not stand against him. However, within an hour of Kennedy's resignation and withdrawal from the contest, Menzies Campbell declared his intention to stand and rapidly garnered support from party heavyweights. Early speculation surrounded the positions of the two other favourites, Simon Hughes and Mark Oaten, both of whom had initially declined to say whether they would enter the contest. Most of the other candidates given serious consideration by the media said they were not standing. John Hemming, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said he was contemplating standing to prevent a "coronation", but was considered a rank outsider – he later dropped out and backed Campbell.
After Kennedy's withdrawal, there was also speculation as to whether the Parliamentary party would seek a single candidate to avoid a contest, an option initially mooted by Mark Oaten, or whether a leadership campaign would be a good thing for the party. Campbell was soon seen as the most likely person to be a unity candidate.
Although Kennedy had decried in his resignation speech the simplification of debates within the party as being solely between left and right, each candidate was seen to draw support from one area of the party. Hughes was identified with the left of the party and was described as being more popular with activists than his fellow MPs. Oaten was seen to be on the right of the party, associated with the Orange Book group. Campbell was seen as more centrist, but identified by those on the right as being sympathetic to them; he was the bookmakers' favourite on the evening of 7 January and remained in pole position for most of the contest. Being older, Campbell was seen as a possible shorter-term leader who would vacate the post after the next General Election, which would suit the leadership ambitions of some younger and newer members of the Parliamentary party.
The election of David Cameron as leader of the Conservatives focused questions on Campbell's age: old enough to be Cameron's father, was he too old for modern politics or did his seniority give him an advantage, a welcome contrast to Cameron? Another issue early in the campaign was the extent to which the potential candidates had conspired to bring about Kennedy's downfall.
Campbell's backers stressed his authority, his experience and how respected he was even beyond the party. He was described as a unity candidate who could lead the party out of a troubled period. His detractors pointed out that his experience was largely in foreign policy and described him as an unknown when it came to domestic issues. The implication was that he would lead the party in a more market liberal direction, especially given that his support included prominent figures on the right of the party like David Laws and Nick Clegg. His detractors also questioned whether he was sufficiently supportive of Kennedy prior to the resignation. Hughes's supporters also stressed his Parliamentary experience (he had been an MP longer than Campbell), charisma and his very large majority (over Lembit Öpik) in the poll of party members for the post of President two years previously. In policy terms, Hughes's opposition to any role for the market in health and education was cited. Oaten was also seen to be to the right and talked of modernising the party. He attacked the "nanny state" instincts of the Labour government. However, the bookmakers favoured Campbell and Hughes over him. Oaten subsequently withdrew having gained minimal support amongst MPs. Chris Huhne, an MP since 2005 but a Member of the European Parliament for six years prior to that, entered the contest last, stressing his green policies. He soon gathered support, overtaking Oaten in the betting markets.
Subsequent to his withdrawal from the contest, it was revealed by a newspaper that Oaten had repeatedly visited a male prostitute. Oaten resigned his frontbench position.
Hughes was also forced to admit previously having
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wit-train-topic-000000685
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China
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History of China
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Han dynasty (206 BC – AD 220)
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History of China / Imperial China / Han dynasty (206 BC – AD 220)
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The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty, during the king Wu Ding's reign, who was mentioned as the twenty-first Shang king by the same. Ancient historical texts such as the Book of Documents, the Records of the Grand Historian and the Bamboo Annals mention and describe a Xia dynasty before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period, and Shang writings do not indicate the existence of the Xia. The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations arose millennia before the Shang. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, and is regarded as one of the cradles of civilization.
The Zhou dynasty supplanted the Shang, and introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule.
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wit-train-topic-000000686
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankyrase_2
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Tankyrase 2
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Introduction
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Tankyrase 2
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Tankyrase-2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the TNKS2 gene.
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wit-train-topic-000000687
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Pobedy_(Moscow_Metro)
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Park Pobedy (Moscow Metro)
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Services
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Park Pobedy (Moscow Metro) / Services
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Park Pobedy is a station of the Moscow Metro in the city's Dorogomilovo District. It is on two lines: the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line and the Kalininsko–Solntsevskaya line. At 84 metres underground, according to the official figures, it is the deepest metro station in Moscow and one of the deepest in the world.
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The Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line serves the station with trains running from Pyatnitskoye Shosse in the northwest via Park Pobedy and central Moscow to Shchyolkovskaya in the northeast of the city.
Until 16 March 2017, the Kalininsko–Solntsevskaya line's western section has only two stations, Park Pobedy and Delovoy Tsentr. An extension to the south, opened on that day, connected Park Pobedy first with Ramenki via two other stations. Eventually it is planned to be extended to Rasskazovka, near Vnukovo International Airport.
Park Pobedy allows cross-platform interchange between the two lines across the station's two island platforms.
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wit-train-topic-000000688
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_US_Cr%C3%A9teil-Lusitanos_season
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2010–11 US Créteil-Lusitanos season
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Coaching staff
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2010–11 US Créteil-Lusitanos season / Club / Coaching staff
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The 2010–11 US Créteil-Lusitanos season is French semi-professional football club US Créteil-Lusitanos's 74th season of competitive football in France. Créteil will participate in the Championnat National, the third division of French football under the helm of new manager Hubert Velud who replaces Laurent Fournier after his failure to achieve promotion to Ligue 2. The club will also participate in the Coupe de France.
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Last updated: 3 June
Source: uscl.fr
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wit-train-topic-000000689
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Jules-Charles_Le_Bozec
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List of works by Jules-Charles Le Bozec
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Gouarec War Memorial
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List of works by Jules-Charles Le Bozec / Gouarec War Memorial
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Jules-Charles Le Bozec was a French sculptor.
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Le Bozec sculpted the figure of a young widow in local peasant dress who stands before the pedestal on which her husband's name is inscribed, along with those of all the men of Gouarec who died in the 1914-1918 war.
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wit-train-topic-000000690
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_of_worship_in_Brighton_and_Hove
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List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove
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Current places of worship
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List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove / Current places of worship
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The city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England, has more than 100 extant churches and other places of worship, which serve a variety of Christian denominations and other religions. More than 50 former religious buildings, although still in existence, are no longer used for their original purpose.
The history of the area now covered by Brighton and Hove spans nearly 1000 years, although the city has only existed in its present form since 2000. The small settlement of Bristelmestune, mentioned in the Domesday Book, developed into a locally important fishing village, and was saved from its 18th-century decline by the patronage of the Prince Regent and British high society. Hove, to the west, had modest origins; rapid growth in the 19th century caused it to merge with Brighton, although it has always tried to maintain its separate identity. During the 20th century, both boroughs expanded by absorbing surrounding villages such as Patcham, Hangleton, West Blatchington and Ovingdean, each of which had an ancient church at their centre. New housing estates such as Mile Oak, Moulsecoomb and Saltdean were built on land acquired by the boroughs.
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wit-train-topic-000000691
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_County,_Oklahoma
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Love County, Oklahoma
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Geography
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Love County, Oklahoma / Geography
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Love County is a county on the southern border of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,423. Its county seat is Marietta. The county was created at statehood in 1907 and named for Overton Love, a prominent Chickasaw farmer, entrepreneur and politician.
For tourism purposes, the Oklahoma Department of Tourism includes Love County in 'Chickasaw Country'. Love County is also part of the Texoma region.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 532 square miles (1,380 km²), of which 514 square miles (1,330 km²) is land and 18 square miles (47 km²) (3.5%) is water. It is the fifth-smallest county in Oklahoma by land area.
Love County is within the Red River Plains physiographic region, with a rolling to hilly topography. The Red River and its tributaries Simon Creek, Walnut Bayou, Hickory Creek and Mud Creek drain the county. Lake Murray is on the northeastern border and Lake Texoma is on the southern border.
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wit-train-topic-000000692
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crossings_of_the_Delaware_River
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List of crossings of the Delaware River
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Pennsylvania – New Jersey
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List of crossings of the Delaware River / Crossings / Pennsylvania – New Jersey
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This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Delaware River from the Atlantic Ocean upstream to its source.
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Commodore Barry Bridge (toll)
US 322 / CR 536Chester and Bridgeport39°49′40″N 75°22′17″WWalt Whitman Bridge (toll)
I-76Philadelphia and Gloucester City39°54′19″N 75°07′47″WRiverLink Ferry (summer)
Philadelphia and CamdenSkylink Aerial Tram (partially built)
Benjamin Franklin Bridge (toll)
I-676 / US 30
PATCO Speedline39°57′10″N 75°08′05″WDelair BridgeCSAO Delair Branch
NJ Transit Atlantic City Line
Former NJ Transit ACESPhiladelphia and Pennsauken39°58′57″N 75°04′08″WBetsy Ross Bridge (toll)
Route 9039°59′05″N 75°03′58″WTacony–Palmyra Bridge (toll)
PA 73
Route 73Philadelphia and Palmyra40°00′45″N 75°02′36″WBurlington–Bristol Bridge (toll)
PA 413
Route 413Bristol Township and Burlington40°04′53″N 74°52′10″WDelaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge Pennsylvania Turnpike
New Jersey Turnpike Ext.
I-95Bristol Township and Burlington Township40°07′02″N 74°49′49″WMorrisville–Trenton Railroad BridgeStone Arch Railroad Bridge, ex Pennsylvania Railroad, now owned by Amtrak Northeast Corridor
SEPTA Trenton Line
Former NJ Transit ACES
NJ Transit Morrisville Yard access
Morrisville and Trenton40.2082°N 74.7672°WTrenton–Morrisville Toll Bridge US 140.2092°N 74.7677°WLower Trenton Bridge (free)
US 1 BUS40.2105°N 74.7683°WCalhoun Street Bridge (free)
40.22001°N 74.77787°WWest Trenton Railroad Bridge, ex Reading RailroadCSX Trenton Subdivision
SEPTA West Trenton LineYardley and Ewing Township40.2417°N 74.8241°WYardley–Wilburtha Bridge
(destroyed by flood in 1955, temporarily rebuilt until torn down completely in 1961, replaced by Scudder Falls Bridge)
40.246°N 74.8356°WScudder Falls Bridge (toll) I-295Lower Makefield Township and Ewing Township40°15′31″N 74°50′50″WWashington Crossing Bridge (free)
Upper Makesfield Township and Hopewell Township40°17′43″N 74°52′5″WNew Hope–Lambertville Bridge (free)
PA 179
Route 179New Hope and Lambertville40°21′53″N 74°56′53″WNew Hope–Lambertville Toll Bridge US 202Solebury Township and Delaware Township40°22′45″N 74°57′19″WCentre Bridge–Stockton Bridge (free)
PA 263Centre Bridge, and Stockton.
40°24′11″N 74°58′46″WLumberville–Raven Rock Bridge(formerly a road bridge, closed in 1944 to auto traffic, rebuilt as a pedestrian crossing in 1947)
Lumberville and Raven Rock40.4078°N 75.0373°WPoint Pleasant–Byram Bridge
(destroyed by flood in 1955)Point Pleasant and Byram40.423°N 75.061°WUhlerstown–Frenchtown Bridge (free)
Route 12Tinicum Township and Frenchtown40.5262°N 75.0651°WUpper Black Eddy–Milford Bridge (free)
Upper Black Eddy and Milford40.5664°N 75.0986°WRiegelsville Bridge (free)
Delaware Road
Riegelsville and Pohatcong Township40.59422°N 75.19077°WInterstate 78 Toll Bridge I-78Williams Township and Phillipsburg40.6721°N 75.1778°WLehigh Valley Railroad, Delaware River BridgeLehigh Valley RailroadEaston and Phillipsburg40.687566°N 75.202298°WCentral Railroad of New Jersey Bridge
Central Railroad of New Jersey40.687784°N 75.202403°WLehigh and Hudson River Railway Bridge
Lehigh and Hudson River Railway40.688958°N 75.203299°WNorthampton Street Bridge (free)
40.691545°N 75.204004°WEaston–Phillipsburg Toll Bridge US 2240.6945°N 75.2036°WMartins Creek Branch Rail Bridge
Martins Creek Branch
40.7755943°N 75.1736126°WRoxburg Branch Rail Bridge
Roxburg Branch
40.7894024°N 75.1159515°WRiverton–Belvidere Bridge (free)
Riverton and Belvidere40.6945°N 75.2036°WDarlington's Bridge at Delaware Station (demolished) US 46Portland and Delaware40.89947°N 75.07480°WDelaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Bridge (abandoned)
DL&W RailroadMount Bethel and Delaware40.899838°N 75.074937°WPortland–Columbia Toll Bridge Route 94Portland and Columbia40.9216°N 75.0917°WPortland–Columbia Pedestrian BridgePedestrian
40.92415°N 75.09554°WDelaware River Viaduct (Lackawanna Cut-Off)
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Upper Mt Bethel Township and Columbia40.9376°N 75.1057°WDelaware Water Gap Toll Bridge I-80Delaware Water Gap and Hardwick Township40.9770°N 75.1354°WDingman's Ferry Bridge (toll)
SR 2019
CR 560Delaware Township and
Sandyston Township41.2201°N 74.8593°WMilford–Montague Toll Bridge US 206Milford and Montague Township41.3071°N 74.8002°W
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wit-train-topic-000000693
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Art_Club
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Glasgow Art Club
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Introduction
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Glasgow Art Club
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Glasgow Art Club is a club for practising and retired artists and lay members with an interest in the arts, that has become over the generations “a meeting place for artists, business leaders and academics.”
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wit-train-topic-000000694
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Caetano_do_Sul
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São Caetano do Sul
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Demographics
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São Caetano do Sul / Demographics
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São Caetano do Sul is a city in São Paulo state in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 158,024 in an area of 15.33 km². It is the city with the highest per capita income in Brazil and it also has the highest Human Development Index.
It is intensely conurbated with São Paulo, Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo, causing the physical limits between cities to be lost. São Caetano do Sul, together with Ferraz de Vasconcelos, is one of two cities in the state of São Paulo that are not crossed by any state or federal highway.
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Immigrants from many nationalities have settled in São Caetano but the most significant groups are Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and Japanese. In the 1950s, nationals from rural Northeastern Brazil started arriving as the region experienced a rapid industrialization boom.
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wit-train-topic-000000695
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashinaruse,_Akita
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Higashinaruse, Akita
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Introduction
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Higashinaruse, Akita
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Higashinaruse (東成瀬村, Higashinaruse-mura) is a village located in Akita Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 January 2020, the village had an estimated population of 2,512 in 902 households, and a population density of 12 persons per km². The total area is of the village is 293.57 square kilometres (113.35 sq mi). In 1999, Higashinaruse was selected as one of The Most Beautiful Villages in Japan.
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wit-train-topic-000000696
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Conquerors_of_Space
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Monument to the Conquerors of Space
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Introduction
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Monument to the Conquerors of Space
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The Monument to the Conquerors of Space (Russian: Монуме́нт «Покори́телям ко́смоса», tr. Monumént "Pokorítelyam kósmosa", IPA: [mənʊˈmʲent pəkɐrʲˈitʲɪlʲɪm ˈkosməsə]) was erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its exhaust plume. The monument is 107 meters (351 feet) tall, has 77° incline, and is made of titanium. The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is located inside the base of the monument.
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wit-train-topic-000000697
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Park,_South_Carolina
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Homeland Park, South Carolina
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Introduction
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Homeland Park, South Carolina
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Homeland Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 6,296 at the 2010 census.
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wit-train-topic-000000698
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_la_Vergne
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Pierre de la Vergne
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Introduction
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Pierre de la Vergne
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Pierre de la Vergne, aka Pierre de Veruche, Pierre Verneyo, Pierre Veruco, Pierre Verrujo or Pierre Veroche, Latin Petrus de Vernio (died 6 October 1403 in Avignon was a French cardinal.
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wit-train-topic-000000699
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponta_Gar%C3%A7a
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Ponta Garça
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Introduction
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Ponta Garça
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Ponta Garça is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila Franca do Campo in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 3,547, in an area of 29.35 km². It is the largest parish in Vila Franca do Campo.
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wit-train-topic-000000700
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loppers
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Loppers
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Introduction
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Loppers
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Loppers are a type of scissors used for pruning twigs and small branches, like pruning shears with very long handles. They are the largest type of manual garden cutting tool.
They are usually operated with two hands, and with handles typically between 30 centimetres (12 in) and 91 centimetres (36 in) long to give good leverage. Some have telescopic handles which can be extended to a length of two metres, in order to increase leverage and to reach high branches on a tree. Loppers are mainly used for the pruning of tree branches with diameters less than 5 centimetres (2 in). Some of the newer lopper designs have a gear or compound lever system which increases the force applied to the blades, or a ratchet drive.
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wit-train-topic-000000701
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramcharitmanas
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Ramcharitmanas
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Bāl Kāṇḍ
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Ramcharitmanas / Narrative / Bāl Kāṇḍ
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Ramcharitmanas, is an epic poem in the Awadhi language, composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Goswami Tulsidas. The word Ramcharitmanas literally means "Lake of the deeds of Rama". It is considered one of the greatest works of Awadhi literature. The work has variously been acclaimed as "the living sum of Indian culture", "the tallest tree in the magic garden of medieval Indian poetry", "the greatest book of all devotional literature" and "the best and most trustworthy guide to the popular living faith of the Indian people".
Tulsidas. Tulsidas was a great scholar of Sanskrit. However, he wanted the story of Rama to be accessible to the general public, as many Apabhramsa languages had evolved from Sanskrit and at that time few people could understand Sanskrit. In order to make the story of Rama as accessible to the layman as to the scholar, Tulsidas chose to write in Awadhi which was the language of general parlance in large parts of north India at the time. Tradition has it that Tulsidas had to face a lot of criticism from the Sanskrit scholars of Varanasi for being a bhasha poet.
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The Child Episode
Tulsidas begins the story with an invocation to various deities, his guru and saints who have preceded him and those who will succeed him in the future. Homage is paid to Valmiki for bringing the Ramayana to the devotees of Rama. Next are introduced and praised the various characters of the epic beginning with the birthplace of Rama, the holy city of Ayodhya. Praises are bestowed on Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya and Rama's father and his queens Kausalya, Kaikeyi and Sumitra. Tulsidas then praises King Janaka (the father-in-law of Rama), and his family. He goes on to praise the brothers of Rama - Bharata, Lakshman & Shatrughna and sings the glories of Hanuman, the constant companion to Rama, Sugriva, the monkey king and Jambavan, the leader of bears. Next, the characters of Sita and Rama are introduced.
The story of Ramcharitmanas is then underway. It begins with the meeting of two sages - Bharadwaj and Yajnavalkya. Bharadwaj asks Yajnavalkya to narrate in detail the story of Rama. Yajnavalkya begins with how Shiva came about retelling the story of Rama to his wife Parvati. (The great story of Sati's self-immolation, the destruction of her father Daksha's sacrifice, the rebirth of Sati as Parvati and her marriage to Shiva). Shiva explains five different reasons as to why Rama incarnated on earth in different ages Kalpa (aeon). Each of these stories is discussed in detail, with the primary message being that Rama incarnated on earth to protect the righteous who follow the path of Dharma. The story then moves to the birth of Ravana and his brothers. Post this point, the narration is done at different times by Shiva, Yajnavalkya, Kakbhushundi and Tulsidas.
The story now moves to the abode of Brahma where Brahma and the other Hindu Devas are found mulling on the ways to rid the earth of Ravana and his excesses. Unable to find a solution, they pray to Shiva and ask him for his guidance on where to find the supreme God who will come to their rescue. Shiva tells them that they don't need to go anywhere to find the Supreme God for he resides in the hearts of his devotees. All the Devas then Pray to the supreme Brahman/Vishnu to rid the earth of the demons wreaking havoc on men as well as Devas. Brahman shows compassion to all and announces in an Akashvani that he will be born in the Sun Dynasty to save the Devas and His devotees from the demons.
The story then moves to Ayodhya. One fine day, Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya, realizes that he has become old and still issueless. He conveys his distress to sage Vasistha, the family guru, and seeks the way forward. Vasistha comforts Dasharatha and tells him that he will have four sons. Vasistha requests Rishyasringa to perform the Putrakām yajna (vedic yajna for the birth of sons). Tulsidas states that the birth of Rama and his brothers took place on the ninth day of the Chaitra month. It was the fortnight of the moon, known as the shukla period.
The story then moves on and Rama and his brothers are now grown-up boys. The sage Vishvamitra arrives at Dasharatha's royal court where the King receives his eminent guest with great honour. Sage Vishvamitra lived in the forest and was performing great sacrifices. However, the demons Maricha and Subahu would always desecrate the ceremonial offerings. He knew that Rama had taken birth on earth to protect his devotees and so he decided to visit Dasharatha to ask him a favor. The sage asks the king to let his sons accompany him to the forest. Reluctantly the king agrees. Rama knew beforehand the intention of Vishvamitra in asking him to come along with him. He assures the sage that he would obey his commands. Lakshman kills Subahu and Rama kills Tataka and defeats Maricha, the dreaded demons.
The story then moves to the deliverance of Ahalya. Rama, Lakshman and Vishvamitra venture on a journey and reach the beautiful kingdom of the Videhas, Mithila. The king of Mithila, Janaka, welcomes the great sage and asks him who are the two boys accompanying him. Janaka is overcome by great emotion as he is able to sense the true nature
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wit-train-topic-000000702
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirama
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Spirama
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Introduction
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Spirama
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Spirama is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852.
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wit-train-topic-000000703
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_(singer)
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Margaret (singer)
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Artistry
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Margaret (singer) / Artistry
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Małgorzata Jamroży, known professionally as Margaret, is a Polish singer and songwriter. Before her mainstream debut, she performed with underground bands, recorded soundtracks for television commercials and films, and produced a fashion blog. Through her blogging, she was discovered by music manager Sławomir Berdowski and signed by the record label Extensive Music.
Margaret found success in 2013 with her debut single, "Thank You Very Much", which was included on her first extended play All I Need and charted in several European countries. Her debut studio album, Add the Blonde, reached the top 10 in the Polish charts, and spawned three singles, "Wasted", "Start a Fire" and "Heartbeat". The single "Cool Me Down" from its 2016 reissue became Margaret's first Polish top five single and achieved moderate success in some European territories after she signed an international record deal with Warner Music that year. Margaret released a collaborative jazz album with Matt Dusk titled Just the Two of Us in 2015. She earned her second Polish top 10 album with Monkey Business, which yielded the singles "What You Do" and "Byle jak".
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Margaret is an alto. On the single "Cool Me Down", her vocal range covers around one-and-a-half octaves from G₄ to C₆. Her vocals were widely compared to Rihanna's, whom some listeners accused Margaret of copying. She responded; "In lower registers my timbre is indeed similar to Rihanna's ... I will not apologise for that". Although Margaret's music has been classified as pop, she incorporates other musical styles into her songs. She said her music is "bitter-sweet. It looks cute and sweet, but it can get serious, wild and crazy."
Margaret has been actively involved in the songwriting process for her albums since the beginning of her career. She co-wrote four of the songs on Add the Blonde and most of the songs on her subsequent releases. Majority of her earlier work is in English, which she attributed partly to the fact that her songs sound better when sung in that language. On her first Polish-language album Gaja Hornby, Margaret said she felt ready to open up and sing in her native language and compared singing in English to wearing a mask. The album introduced Margaret's alter ego Gaja Hornby, which she adopted at the beginning of her career to protect her privacy and regain anonymity. It was inspired by Julia Roberts' Pretty Woman character who used different names in the film and is a combination of a name Margaret wished she was given at birth and the name of her favourite author Nick Hornby. Margaret said the reason to reveal her alter ego was to show her fans the more personal side of her life.
Margaret has named the Polish singer Grażyna Łobaszewska as a role model and her biggest inspiration, and credits Polish rapper Łona as a primary influence on her writing style. She has cited Miroslava Duma and earlier in her career Gwen Stefani as her fashion inspirations. She also admires Rihanna, Jarle Bernhoft and Tom Odell.
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wit-train-topic-000000704
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Highway_129
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Puerto Rico Highway 129
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Gallery
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Puerto Rico Highway 129 / Gallery
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PR-129 is a north–south highway in North-Central Puerto Rico, connecting the town of Lares with Arecibo. It crosses the northern karst country of the island. When traveling from the northern coast of Puerto Rico, PR-129 can be used to reach the Arecibo Observatory and the Camuy River Caverns Park.
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wit-train-topic-000000705
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julija_Pranaityt%C4%97
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Julija Pranaitytė
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Introduction
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Julija Pranaitytė
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Julija "Julė" Pranaitytė (26 June 1881 – 29 January 1944) was a Lithuanian newspaper editor, book publisher, and one of the first Lithuanian women travelers.
She was educated in Saint Petersburg (Russia), La Chapelle-Montligeon (France), and Ingenbohl (Switzerland). After the death of her fiance poet Pranas Vaičaitis in 1901, she moved to United States where she collaborated with priest Antanas Milukas and edited the Catholic-minded magazine Žvaigždė until her death. Using her personal funds, she published about 35 Lithuanian books. Together with Milukas, she published about a hundred books. She translated religious texts from French and wrote travel books on her journey to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Caucasus (published in 1914), Lithuania (1928), Spain (1932). She died in poverty and obscurity in 1944.
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wit-train-topic-000000706
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakching_Khunou
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Kakching Khunou
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Healthcare
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Kakching Khunou / Healthcare
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Kakching Khunou is an agricultural town in Kakching district in the Indian state of Manipur. Situated at a distance of 56 km from Imphal, it is surrounded by hillocks and agricultural land. Tarang Turel, a rivulet flowing down from the eastern hills, runs through the middle of the town serving as a natural spring. It is connected to other parts of the state by the Imphal -Sugnu state highway.
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There is a Primary Health Center at Kakching Khunou.
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wit-train-topic-000000707
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mills_in_Preston
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List of mills in Preston
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Standing mills
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List of mills in Preston / The mills / Standing mills
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Preston in Lancashire, England has been associated with cotton since John Horrocks built his first spinning mill, the Yellow factory, in 1791. This was powered by a Bateman & Sherratt engine. Preston mills tended to have their own reservoirs. They spun cotton using hand mules and self-actors but normally also operated power looms in weaving sheds. Local firms such as Ainscow & Tomlinson and Grundy made mules for the mills. There were 60 mills operating in Preston in 1927.
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wit-train-topic-000000708
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veitsh%C3%B6chheim
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Veitshöchheim
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Attractions
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Veitshöchheim / Attractions
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Veitshöchheim is a municipality in the district of Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Main, 6 kilometres northwest of Würzburg. Veitshöchheim has a population just under 10,000.
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wit-train-topic-000000709
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Sheffield_City_Centre
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Listed buildings in Sheffield City Centre
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Introduction
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Listed buildings in Sheffield City Centre
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This is a list of listed buildings in Sheffield City Centre. For the purposes of this list, the city centre is defined as being equivalent to the S1 postcode district. For other areas inside the Sheffield Inner Ring Road which are sometimes regarded as part of the city centre, see listed buildings in S2, listed buildings in S3, listed buildings in S4 and listed buildings in S10.
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wit-train-topic-000000710
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Wildlife_Trust
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Kent Wildlife Trust
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Sites
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Kent Wildlife Trust / Sites
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Kent Wildlife Trust is a conservation charity in the United Kingdom that was founded in 1958, previously known as the Kent Trust for Nature Conservation. It aims to "work with people to restore, save and improve our natural spaces" and to "ensure that 30% of Kent and Medway – land and sea – is managed to create a healthy place for wildlife to flourish". In 2016 it had thirty-one thousand members and an annual income of £4 million. KWT manages fifty-four nature reserves, of which twenty-four are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, two are National Nature Reserves, nine are Nature Conservation Review sites, seven are Special Areas of Conservation, three are Special Protection Areas, seven are Local Nature Reserves, one is a Geological Conservation Review site, thirteen are in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and one is a Scheduled Monument.
Kent is a county in the southeastern corner of England. It is bounded to the north by Greater London and the Thames Estuary, to the west by Sussex and Surrey, and to the south and east by the English channel and the North Sea. The county town is Maidstone.
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wit-train-topic-000000711
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeit%C3%A3o_(S%C3%A3o_Louren%C3%A7o_e_S%C3%A3o_Sim%C3%A3o)
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Azeitão (São Lourenço e São Simão)
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Heritage
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Azeitão (São Lourenço e São Simão) / Heritage
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Azeitão (São Lourenço e São Simão) is a civil parish in the municipality of Setúbal, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes São Lourenço and São Simão. The population in 2011 was 18,877, in an area of 69.32 km². It is composed of a cluster of small "aldeias" or small villages, some of those are: Vila Fresca de Azeitão, Vila Nogueira de Azeitão, Brejos de Azeitão, Aldeia de Irmãos, Vendas de Azeitão. Two of the closest cities are Setúbal and Palmela.
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Church of São Lourenço: From the primitive Gothic temple nothing remains as proof, and what we see today is a church with 18th century tiles, carving and some paintings.
Fountain of the Stunned: It gained its name due to the admiration that its contemplation caused. It is said that whoever drinks from these waters is permanently attached to the locality.
José Maria da Fonseca Cellars and its Wine Museum: Housed in a 19th-century building, they showcase the old machinery to demonstrate how things evolved over a period of 150 years.
Azeitão Tile Factory: It maintains the tradition of producing completely manual tiles, using the stoneware technique.
Palace of the Dukes of Aveiro: Built in the 17th century, it is a symbol of the aristocratic past of the land. However, it is not visible. In front of it stands the pillory.
Quinta das Torres: Sixteenth-century noble house that is now an inn with restaurant and tea house. It has a lake and a small fresh house in the center.
Quinta da Bacalhoa: Famous not only for its wine, but also for hosting an important tile heritage of the 15th and 16th centuries.
In Azeitão there are several farms, some of them dedicated to wine production, cheese, and the famous Azeitão pies. Others are owned by famous people, such as Herman José, Manuel Vilarinho, or the former president of Sporting Clube de Portugal, Filipe Soares Franco.
Azeitão is the birthplace of the poet and pedagogue Sebastião da Gama, known for his poems about the Nature Park of Arrábida, who died prematurely at age 27, victim of tuberculosis. The parish pays several respects to the poet, especially in the house where he was born and in the Museum-Library Sebastião da Gama.
In 2014, Azeitão cheese was considered one of the 50 best gastronomic products in the world, distinguished by the Great Taste Awards, organized by the Guild of Fine Food (Ireland), known as the Oscars of Gastronomy.
In June 2015, it was announced the creation of a museum that pays homage to Azeitão shepherds and cheese. It is called Ovelheiro Museum and is located in Palmela.
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wit-train-topic-000000712
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%9Fak%C5%9Fehir
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Başakşehir
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Introduction
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Başakşehir
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Başakşehir is one of the 39 second-level districts in Greater Istanbul, Turkey. The population of Başakşehir is 311,095 as of 2012. It is in the European part of Istanbul.
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wit-train-topic-000000713
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_stock_of_the_Mid-Norfolk_Railway
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Rolling stock of the Mid-Norfolk Railway
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Diesel locomotives and shunters previously based on the MNR
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Rolling stock of the Mid-Norfolk Railway / Former Mid-Norfolk Railway rolling stock / Diesel locomotives and shunters previously based on the MNR
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The Mid-Norfolk Railway has a large collection of heritage rolling stock, mostly relating to the post-war British Railways-era, from the 1950s to 1990s. The line holds several rolling-stock accomplishments:
Owners of the first DMU vehicle to enter preservation.
First Second Generation DMU used on a heritage railway.
First complete set of coaches in the blue-grey livery on a heritage line.
First complete set of coaches in the InterCity Executive livery on a heritage line.
First heritage railway to operate an air-conditioned Mk2 carriage in service.
First operational Mk3 carriage on a heritage line.
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wit-train-topic-000000714
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Marin_County,_California
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Marin County, California
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Current listings
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Marin County, California / Current listings
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marin County, California.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marin County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
There are 52 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 4 National Historic Landmarks.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 17, 2020.
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wit-train-topic-000000715
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
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List of bridges in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Introduction
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List of bridges in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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This list of bridges in Bosnia and Herzegovina lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included.
The list is incomplete, you can help expending it.
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wit-train-topic-000000716
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Khatami
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Mohammad Khatami
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Early life and education
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Mohammad Khatami / Early life and education
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Sayyid Mohammad Khatami served as the fifth President of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to 1992. Later, he was critical of the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Little known internationally before becoming president, Khatami attracted attention during his first election to the presidency when he received almost 70% of the vote. Khatami had run on a platform of liberalization and reform. During his two terms as president, Khatami advocated freedom of expression, tolerance and civil society, constructive diplomatic relations with other states including those in Asia and the European Union, and an economic policy that supported a free market and foreign investment.
On 8 February 2009, Khatami announced that he would run in the 2009 presidential election but withdrew on 16 March in favor of his long-time friend and adviser, former Prime Minister of Iran, Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Khatami proposed the Dialogue Among Civilizations. The United Nations proclaimed the year 2001 as the United Nations' Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations, on Khatami's suggestion.
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Khatami was born on 14 October 1943, in the small town of Ardakan, in Yazd Province. Khatami holds the title of Sayyid, which means that he is a direct patrilineal descent from Muhammad. He married Zohreh Sadeghi, the daughter of a professor of religious law, and niece of Musa al-Sadr, in 1974 (at the age of 31). The couple have two daughters and one son: Laila (born 1975), Narges (born 1980), and Emad (born 1988).
Khatami's father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami, was a high-ranking cleric and the Khatib (the one who delivers the sermon for Friday prayers) in the city of Yazd in the early years of the Iranian Revolution. Like his father, Khatami rose to prominence in the locality when he became an Ayatollah.
Khatami's brother, Mohammad-Reza Khatami, was elected as Tehran's first member of parliament in the 6th term of parliament, during which he served as deputy speaker of the parliament. He also served as the secretary-general of Islamic Iran Participation Front (Iran's largest reformist party) for several years. Mohammad Reza is married to Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ruhollah Khomeini (founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran) who is a feminist human rights activist.
Khatami's other brother, Ali Khatami, a businessman with a master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, served as the President's Chief of Staff during President Khatami's second term in office, where he kept an unusually low profile.
Khatami's eldest sister, Fatemeh Khatami, was elected as the first representative of the people of Ardakan (Khatami's hometown) in 1999 city council elections.
Mohammad Khatami is not related to Ahmad Khatami, a hardline cleric and Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran.
Mohammad Khatami received a BA in Western philosophy at Isfahan University, but left academia while studying for a master's degree in educational sciences at Tehran University and went to Qom to complete his previous studies in Islamic sciences. He studied there for seven years and completed the courses to the highest level, Ijtihad. After that, he briefly settled in Germany to chair the Islamic Centre in Hamburg from 1978 to 1980.
Before serving as president, Khatami was a representative in the parliament from 1980 to 1982, supervisor of the Kayhan Institute, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance (1982–1986), and then for a second term from 1989 to 24 May 1992 (when he resigned), the head of the National Library of Iran from 1992 to 1997, and a member of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution. He is a member and chairman of the Central Council of the Association of Combatant Clerics. Besides his native language Persian, Khatami speaks Arabic, English, and German.
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wit-train-topic-000000717
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_From_the_Barrage
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Live From the Barrage
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Introduction
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Live From the Barrage
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Live From the Barrage is a combination music, call-in, and comedy Internet radio show/podcast hosted independently by John Houlihan since 2012, in a bar in a garage in Queens, New York. The show's slogan is: "it’s Friday night and we’re in fuggin' Queens". The show began on livestream (now: Vimeo Livestream) 2012-2015 (episodes 1-118) and then Radio NOPE from 2015-Present (119-Present). The format is largely talk based, ranging from music, sports, national events & more with both call-in and in-person guests.
Founded in 2012, Live From The Barrage broadcasts live at 8PM Eastern each week drawing regular listeners from around the world. Since launching the show has aired over 300 episodes and has hosted celebrity guests such as Marc Maron, DMC of (Run DMC, Billy Bragg, Steve Albini, Mike Watt, Tom Scharpling, Jon Wurster, C. J. Ramone , Pussy Riot, Eric Bachmann, & many more.
The show is noted for its irreverent tone and occasional forays into Insult comedy and a roast like atmosphere. The interplay and frequent frustration between the host and the other on-air personalities being a key part of the show. The shows feature a live weekly game hosted by producer Ryan Collison, which often involve the guests and the listeners. It also features a live news read by newsman and producer Tommy Rockstar, that is frequently interrupted by wisecracks and (frequently inebriated) commentary.
The show has been featured favorably in the New York Timesand on FOX5 News in New York.
Barrage has listeners and callers around the world, from the United States and Canada, to as far afield as the U.K., Germany and Australia. Regular callers and in-studio guests of note have included Steve Albini, Matt Sweeney, Justin Foley of the Austerity Program and many others.
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wit-train-topic-000000718
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Taylor
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Ike Taylor
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Introduction
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Ike Taylor
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Ivan "Ike" Taylor (born May 5, 1980) is a former American football cornerback. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft, and spent his entire 12-year career in Pittsburgh. He played college football at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
He was formerly an analyst for NFL Now and other shows on the NFL Network.
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wit-train-topic-000000719
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katberg_Formation
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Katberg Formation
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Introduction
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Katberg Formation
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The Katberg Formation is a geological formation that is found in the Beaufort Group, a major geological group that forms part of the greater Karoo Supergroup in South Africa. The Katberg Formation is the lowermost geological formation of the Tarkastad Subgroup which contains the Lower to Middle Triassic-aged rocks of the Beaufort Group. Outcrops and exposures of the Katberg Formation are found east of 24 degrees on wards and north of Graaff-Reniet, Nieu Bethesda, Cradock, Fort Beaufort, Queensdown, and East London in the south, and ranges as far north as Harrismith in deposits that form a ring around the Drakensberg mountain ranges.
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wit-train-topic-000000720
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher
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Kingfisher
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Introduction
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Kingfisher
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Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species found in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The family contains 114 species and is divided into three subfamilies and 19 genera. All kingfishers have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Most species have bright plumage with only small differences between the sexes. Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests. They consume a wide range of prey usually caught by swooping down from a perch. While kingfishers are usually thought to live near rivers and eat fish, many species live away from water and eat small invertebrates. Like other members of their order, they nest in cavities, usually tunnels dug into the natural or artificial banks in the ground. Some kingfishers nest in arboreal termite nests. A few species, principally insular forms, are threatened with extinction. In Britain, the word "kingfisher" normally refers to the common kingfisher.
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wit-train-topic-000000721
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fran%C3%A7ois_Bastien_S%C3%A9bastiani_de_La_Porta
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Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta
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Embassy to Mustafa IV
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Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta / Embassy to Mustafa IV
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Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta was a French soldier, diplomat, and politician, who served as Naval Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of State under the July Monarchy.
Having joined the French Revolutionary Army in his youth, Sébastiani rose through its ranks before becoming a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sébastiani was the French Consulate's emissary to The Levant, notably drafting plans to reconquer Ottoman Egypt, and later served as the Empire's Ambassador to The Porte. In the latter capacity, he attempted to increase French influence and signaled pro-Russian activities in the Danubian Principalities, thus provoking the War of 1806–1812. In 1807, Sébastiani organized the defense of Constantinople during the Dardanelles Operation. Recalled due to British pressure after the deposition of Selim III, he served in the Peninsular War and resided in the Alhambra, took part in the unsuccessful invasion of Russia, and defended the Champagne region in front of the Sixth Coalition.
Sébastiani recognized the Bourbon Restoration, but rallied with Napoleon during the Hundred Days, being elected to the Chamber for the first time in 1815.
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The successful rebellion led by Kabakçı Mustafa and the Janissary troops put an end to French diplomatic success. Sébastiani negotiated with Kabakçı, while the British sought support from various factions inside Constantinople — the Grand Dragoman, Aleko Soutzos, eventually informed the French Ambassador on the parallel British projects. This resulted in Soutzos' beheading — that which, in Ion Ghica's version of events, caused the Soutzos family to abandon their commitment to France and begin supporting Russia. According to the Revue des Deux Mondes biography, Sébastiani had betrayed Aleko Soutzos' confidence by revealing as many details of Anglo-Ottoman negotiations as to render it clear that the Dragoman had been acting as his spy, and by failing to respect the promise of French protection.
Under the new monarch, Mustafa IV, he attempted to impose a pro-French pasha as governor of Baghdad, and later provoked a scandal by asking for the Imperial Executioner, the Bostanji-bashi, to be demoted—this came after three Ragusan subjects, having been found guilty of theft, were subjected to the falaka torture, despite the facts that the recent annexation of Ragusa by France offered them a degree of immunity. As a result of his pressures, Sébastiani obtained rule over the province of Baghdad for his favorite, and, in return, allowed the Bostanji-bashi to remain in office.
He asked to be recalled in April 1807, being replaced by Chargé d'affaires Faÿ de La Tour Maubourg. This departure was also prompted by renewed British requests. Shortly before his leaving, Sultan Mustafa awarded Sébastiani the Order of the Crescent 1st Class, which has been interpreted as a measure to alleviate the impact of British successes. According to other accounts, Mustafa himself had become deeply dissatisfied with Sébastiani's interventions and policies. Upon his return to France, Sébastiani received the Grand Aigle de la Légion d'honneur. The Revue des Deux Mondes speculated that, based on the Corsican heritage he shared with Sébastiani:
"the Emperor would often keep his eyes closed in respect to his Generals' mistakes.
As for [Sébastiani's] diplomatic skills, Napoleon was so affected that he sent him to the arms as soon as he returned from the Orient, and did not assign him to any negotiations until his fall [of 1814]."
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wit-train-topic-000000723
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Sumatra
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List of mammals of Sumatra
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Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) EN/en
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List of mammals of Sumatra / Order: Proboscidea / Family: Elephantidae / Genus: Elephas / Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) EN/en
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This is a list of mammal species found in the Sumatra, Indonesia.
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wit-train-topic-000000724
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_House
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Fairfax House
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Gallery
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Fairfax House / Gallery
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Fairfax House is a Georgian townhouse located at No. 27, Castlegate, York, England, near Clifford's Tower and York Castle Museum. It was probably built in the early 1740s for a local merchant and in 1759 it was purchased by Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley, who arranged for the interior to be remodelled by John Carr. After the Viscount's death in 1772, the house was sold and subsequently passed through a number of local families before spending some time as a Gentleman's Club, a Building Society and a cinema. The property was bought by York Civic Trust in the 1980s and completely restored to its former grandeur. Fairfax House is now a museum open to the public and a Grade I listed building.
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wit-train-topic-000000725
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halder,_Netherlands
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Halder, Netherlands
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Introduction
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Halder, Netherlands
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Halder is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Sint-Michielsgestel, between the towns of Sint-Michielsgestel and Vught.
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wit-train-topic-000000726
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherical_photography
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Hemispherical photography
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Introduction
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Hemispherical photography
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Hemispherical photography, also known as canopy photography, is a technique to estimate solar radiation and characterize plant canopy geometry using photographs taken looking upward through an extreme wide-angle lens or a fisheye lens (Rich 1990). Typically, the viewing angle approaches or equals 180-degrees, such that all sky directions are simultaneously visible. The resulting photographs record the geometry of visible sky, or conversely the geometry of sky obstruction by plant canopies or other near-ground features. This geometry can be measured precisely and used to calculate solar radiation transmitted through (or intercepted by) plant canopies, as well as to estimate aspects of canopy structure such as leaf area index. Detailed treatments of field and analytical methodology have been provided by Paul Rich (1989, 1990) and Robert Pearcy (1989).
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wit-train-topic-000000727
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Sergius_Orthodox_Theological_Institute
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St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute
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Introduction
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St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute
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The St Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (French: Institut de théologie orthodoxe Saint-Serge) in Paris, France, is a private school of higher education in Orthodox theology, founded in 1925 in conformity with French legislation and the norms of European university education, accredited by the Académie de Paris. The mission of the St. Sergius Institute is to form educated priests and laypeople, intending to serve actively the Orthodox Church and representing it in the ecumenical dialogue, as well as in the religious and cultural life of their own country. It is under the canonical jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox churches in Western Europe, under the omophorion of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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wit-train-topic-000000728
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Chewings
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Charles Chewings
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Introduction
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Charles Chewings
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Charles Chewings (16 April 1859 – 9 June 1937) was an Australian geologist and anthropologist.
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wit-train-topic-000000729
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_transport_in_Warsaw
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Bus transport in Warsaw
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Fleet
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Bus transport in Warsaw / Fleet
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Bus transport in Warsaw was introduced in 1920. Since 1994, services have been managed by Zarząd Transportu Miejskiego w Warszawie, and operated by various companies under contract. ZTM's fleet consists of 1787 vehicles, which cover 288 lines.
In 1921, three lines were opened. From November 1939 the regular liquidation of the rolling stock began, only one car survived the war. Bus transport appeared again in April 1945. The first night bus appeared on the streets of Warsaw in 1963. On March 11, 1994, the Warsaw transport was reorganized.
In November 1994, the first German low-floor Neoplan N4020 was put into operation. 1999 was marked by modern and low-floor Solaris Urbino 15 buses. In 2002, MAN buses joined the Solarises.
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wit-train-topic-000000730
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ_Volga
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GAZ Volga
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Second series—the Shark
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GAZ Volga / First Generation, the GAZ-M-21 / Second series—the Shark
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Volga is an Executive car that originated in the Soviet Union to replace the venerated GAZ Pobeda in 1956. Their role in serving the Soviet nomenklatura made them a contemporary cultural icon. Several generations of the car have been produced.
Despite the continuous modernisations, GAZ found it increasingly difficult to keep the ageing design competitive in a market economy. GAZ CEO Bo Andersson decided to discontinue the Volga range in 2010.
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The 16-slit vertical grille for models from 1958 (which gave it the unofficial nickname Akula (Shark)) was not the only change by any means. Most of the changes came in February 1959, and included new front fenders with raised wheel arches, reflector glasses in the tail lights, a flock trim on the dashboard (later replaced by leatherette), a new radio with a metallic mesh speaker, windscreen washer and lock actuator on the boot. The following year was to have a new rear design with more contemporary tailfins , but this was not implemented. Instead, the car body received several reinforcement supports and the novel, but ultimately troublesome central lubrication system was removed.
The actual model designation of the Sharks was such that the automatic-equipped vehicles would retain the GAZ-M-21 with no suffix designation and the GAZ-M-21E (though by this point these have all but disappeared from the line-up). Also unchanged was the taxicab GAZ-M-21A. The base model, from February 1959 was now called GAZ-M-21I. Its export 80 hp vehicle now became the GAZ-M-21K. In addition to the engine, it now had a more extensive chrome trim elements on the exterior (including the mentioned grille) and improved upholstery inside. Russian customers could order the latter features, for an extra price, and such vehicles were called GAZ-M-21U.
In 1961, the Volga lost another characteristic icon, the removal of the deer mascot from the bonnet. A feature of both the "Star" and the "Shark", it became an iconic attribute of the 21st Volga, and Soviet automotive industry in general. Nonetheless, it was not only a common victim to hooligans, but also would divert splash stream right into the windscreen should the car pass a puddle at speed. Even more, it played a role in Pedestrian injury during accidental run-overs. Given its added cost, it was gradually phased out. In 1959 the taxi models gained a new droplet shaped object. In 1960 the deer was standard only on export cars and vehicles allocated for private ownership. In 1961, the deer could be found on the extra-trimmed GAZ-M-21Us. Simultaneously, two-tone colour schemes were also phased out from available options.
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wit-train-topic-000000731
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_ranks_of_Spain
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Military ranks of Spain
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Non commissioned officers and Enlisted Student rank insignia
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Military ranks of Spain / Air force / Non commissioned officers and Enlisted Student rank insignia
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The Military ranks of Spain are the military insignia used by the Spanish Armed Forces.
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wit-train-topic-000000732
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Taunton_Deane
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Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane
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Buildings
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Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane / Buildings
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Taunton Deane is a local government district with borough status in the English county of Somerset. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance; Grade I structures are those considered to be "buildings of exceptional interest". Listing was begun by a provision in the Town and Country Planning Act 1947. Once listed, severe restrictions are imposed on the modifications allowed to a building's structure or its fittings. In England, the authority for listing under the Planning Act 1990 rests with Historic England, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; local authorities have a responsibility to regulate and enforce the planning regulations.
The district of Taunton Deane Area covers a population of approximately 100,000 in an area of 462 square kilometres. It is centred on the town of Taunton, where around 60,000 of the population live and the council are based, and includes surrounding suburbs and villages.
There are 38 Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane.
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wit-train-topic-000000733
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wood_(mathematician)
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James Wood (mathematician)
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Introduction
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James Wood (mathematician)
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James Wood (14 December 1760 – 23 April 1839) was a mathematician, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge. In his later years he was Dean of Ely.
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wit-train-topic-000000735
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Blitzstein
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Marc Blitzstein
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Life and career
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Marc Blitzstein / Life and career
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Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his Off-Broadway translation/adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed translation/adaptations of Brecht's and Weill's musical play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and of Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by Paul Dessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed and The Spanish Earth, and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play Toys in the Attic.
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Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2, 1905, to affluent parents. Blitzstein's musical gifts were apparent at an early age; he had performed a Mozart piano concerto by the time he was seven. He went on to study piano with Alexander Siloti (a pupil of Tchaikovsky and Liszt), and made his professional concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Liszt's E-flat Piano Concerto when he was 21.
After studying composition at the Curtis Institute of Music, he went to Europe to continue his studies in Berlin with Arnold Schoenberg (with whom he did not get on), and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger (with whom he did). Despite his later political beliefs, he was, in the early years of his career, a self-proclaimed and unrepentant artistic snob, who firmly believed that true art was only for the intellectual elite. He was vociferous in denouncing composers—in particular Respighi, Ravel, and Kurt Weill—who, he felt, debased their standards to reach a wider public.
His works of this period, mostly pianistic vehicles such as the Piano Sonata (1927) and the Piano Concerto (1931) are typical of the Boulanger-influenced products of American modernism — strongly rhythmic (though not influenced by jazz) and described by himself as "wild, dissonant and percussive." These early works were far removed from the Schoenberg style.
The dramatic premiere of the pro-union The Cradle Will Rock took place at the Venice Theater on June 16, 1937. The cast had been locked out of the Maxine Elliott Theatre by the Works Progress Administration, the government agency which had originally funded the production, so the cast and musicians walked with the audience to the nearby Venice. There, without costumes or sets, they performed the work concert-style, actors and musicians alike, sitting among the audience (to evade union restrictions on their performance) with Blitzstein narrating from the piano. In 1939, Leonard Bernstein led a revival of the play at Harvard, narrating from the piano just as Blitzstein had done. Blitzstein attended the performance, after which he and Bernstein became close friends; Bernstein would later say that Blitzstein's contribution to the American musical theatre was "incalculable". The 1999 film Cradle Will Rock was based on this event, though heavily embellished. In the film, Blitzstein (played by Hank Azaria) is portrayed as gaining inspiration through ghostly appearances by his idol Brecht and his late anorexic wife.
Additional major compositions include the autobiographical radio song play I've Got the Tune, The Airborne Symphony (1946), Regina (1949), Reuben, Reuben (1955), and Juno (1959). At the time of his death Blitzstein was at work on Idiots First, a one-act opera based on the eponymous story by Bernard Malamud – intended to be part of a set of one-acters called Tales of Malamud – which Ned Rorem has called "his best work". This was followed by the work Blitzstein intended to be his magnum opus, a three-act opera commissioned by the Ford Foundation and optioned by the Metropolitan Opera entitled Sacco and Vanzetti. Both Tales of Malamud and Sacco and Vanzetti were completed posthumously, with the approval of Blitzstein's estate, by composer Leonard Lehrman. Lehrman's long-awaited Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography, published in 2005 by Praeger, is the longest published biographical bibliography of any American composer at 645 pages.
In 1958, Blitzstein was subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). Appearing first in a closed session, Blitzstein admitted his membership in the Communist Party (ending in 1949) and, challenging the right of HUAC to question him at all, refused to name names or cooperate any further. He was recalled for a further public session, but after a day sitting anxiously in a waiting room he was not called to testify.
During a visit to Martinique in 1964, at the age of 58, Blitzstein was murdered by three sailors he had picked up in a bar, one of whom he was said to have propositioned. He is buried at Chelton Hills Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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wit-train-topic-000000736
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangsamoro_Transition_Authority
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Bangsamoro Transition Authority
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History
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Bangsamoro Transition Authority / History
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The Bangsamoro Transition Authority is the interim regional government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and has executive and legislative powers over the region.
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With the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law following a plebiscite on January 21, 2019 the abolition process of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) begins paving way for the formal creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region. Under the law a transition body, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), is to be organized pending the election of the new region's government officials in 2022.
It was planned that the BTA will be constituted in February 2019. It is projected that the transition body will compose of a total of 105 members (80 appointed members and 25 elected officials of the ARMM) until June 30, 2019. After that date the body will compose of only 80 members.
Until the BTA was constituted, Section 5 of Article XVI of the Bangsamoro Organic Law provided for a caretaker body consisting of the same 25 ARMM officials as well as the original 20 members of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission.
The 80 appointed members of the BTA took their oath on February 22, 2019 with the official turnover of the ARMM to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region occurred on February 26, 2019.
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wit-train-topic-000000737
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal
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Taj Mahal
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Outlying buildings
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Taj Mahal / Architecture and design / Outlying buildings
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The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the southern bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.
Construction of the mausoleum was essentially completed in 1643, but work continued on other phases of the project for another 10 years. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be around 32 million rupees, which in 2020 would be approximately 70 billion rupees. The construction project employed some 20,000 artisans under the guidance of a board of architects led by the court architect to the emperor, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.
The Taj Mahal was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 for being "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage".
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The Taj Mahal complex is bordered on three sides by crenellated red sandstone walls; the side facing the river is open. Outside the walls are several additional mausoleums, including those of Shah Jahan's other wives, and a larger tomb for Mumtaz's favourite servant.
The main gateway (darwaza) is a monumental structure built primarily of marble, and reminiscent of the Mughal architecture of earlier emperors. Its archways mirror the shape of the tomb's archways, and its pishtaq arches incorporate the calligraphy that decorates the tomb. The vaulted ceilings and walls have elaborate geometric designs like those found in the other sandstone buildings in the complex.
At the far end of the complex are two grand red sandstone buildings that mirror each other, and face the sides of the tomb. The backs of the buildings parallel the western and eastern walls. The western building is a mosque and the other is the jawab (answer), thought to have been constructed for architectural balance although it may have been used as a guesthouse. Distinctions between the two buildings include the jawab's lack of a mihrab (a niche in a mosque's wall facing Mecca), and its floors of geometric design whereas the floor of the mosque is laid with outlines of 569 prayer rugs in black marble. The mosque's basic design of a long hall surmounted by three domes is similar to others built by Shah Jahan, particularly the Masjid-i Jahān-Numā, or Jama Masjid, Delhi. The Mughal mosques of this period divide the sanctuary hall into three areas comprising a main sanctuary and slightly smaller sanctuaries on either side. At the Taj Mahal, each sanctuary opens onto an expansive vaulting dome. The outlying buildings were completed in 1643.
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