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wit-train-topic-000000954
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mosque,_Bursa
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Green Mosque, Bursa
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Gallery
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Green Mosque, Bursa / Gallery
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The Green Mosque, also known as the Mosque of Mehmed I, is a part of a larger complex located on the east side of Bursa, Turkey, the former capital of the Ottoman Turks before they captured Constantinople in 1453. The complex consists of a mosque, türbe, madrasah, kitchen and bath. The name Green Mosque comes from its green and blue interior tile decorations.
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wit-train-topic-000000955
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_Swale
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Grade II* listed buildings in Swale
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Swale
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Grade II* listed buildings in Swale / Swale
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There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Swale in Kent.
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wit-train-topic-000000956
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netivot
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Netivot
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Future development
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Netivot / Future development
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Netivot is a city in the Southern District of Israel located between Beersheba and Gaza. In 2018, it had a population of 35,631.
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Two additional neighborhoods with a total of 3,600 new housing units are planned for Netivot. They are expected to double the city's population. Two large supermarkets are also planned for the city, in addition to the seven already built there.
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wit-train-topic-000000957
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Finch
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Aaron Finch
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Junior and domestic career
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Aaron Finch / Junior and domestic career
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Aaron James Finch is an Australian international cricketer who captains the Australian cricket team in limited overs cricket. Finch currently holds the record for two of the three highest individual scores in Twenty20 Internationals, his score of 172 against Zimbabwe in July 2018 beating his previous record of 156 against England in 2013. In July 2018, he became the first player to reach 900 rating points on the official International Cricket Council T20I rankings. He made his Test debut for Australia in October 2018.
Finch plays domestically for Victoria, Surrey and Melbourne Renegades. He is a top order batsman, and occasional left arm orthodox spinner.
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As a junior, Finch played at Colac West Cricket Club in the Colac & District Cricket Association (CDCA) as a wicket-keeper. A right-handed batsman, he played in the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka.
Finch got his opportunity to become established as a regular in the Victorian side in the 2009/10 season. He hit his maiden first-class cricket century against Tasmania at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in a partnership of 212 runs for the third wicket with David Hussey. In October 2012, while filling in as captain, he scored 154 runs at the Gabba against Queensland, a new highest score for Victoria in domestic one day cricket.
After playing for the Melbourne Renegades in the inaugural Big Bash League season in 2011, he captained the side in 2012 and was the Big Bash League player of the year. In December 2015, Finch became the first player to score 1,000 runs in the Big Bash.
Finch has played county cricket in England, first for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2014 and 2015 before joining Surrey from 2016. In July 2018, during the 2018 t20 Blast, he scored 131 not out for Surrey, setting a new record for the highest T20 individual score for Surrey in a county match.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000958
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_College,_Drygrange
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St Andrew's College, Drygrange
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Gallery
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St Andrew's College, Drygrange / Gallery
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St Andrew's College, Drygrange, located near Melrose, Scotland, was a Roman Catholic seminary founded in 1953 and closed in 1986.
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wit-train-topic-000000959
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Fran%C3%A7ois_Letourneur
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Étienne-François Letourneur
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Republic and Empire
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Étienne-François Letourneur / Republic and Empire
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Étienne-François-Louis-Honoré Letourneur, Le Tourneur, or Le Tourneur de la Manche was a French lawyer, soldier, and politician of the French Revolution.
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Letourneur served the Republic's National Convention as an overseer of defense during the Siege of Toulon, and took the task of reorganizing the Mediterranean Fleet. He was elected to the French Directory's Council of Ancients, became one of the government leaders ("directors") on 2 November 1795. In April 1797 he left office, under the system whereby one director retired each year, chosen by lot (illustration). He then became a general of the French Revolutionary Army.
Under the Consulate, Letourneur was designated by Napoleon Bonaparte préfet of the Loire-Inférieure département, then counsel for the Cour des Comptes. Nevertheless, Letourneur was exiled after the end of the French Empire, living the rest of his life in Brussels.
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wit-train-topic-000000960
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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Europe
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan / Presidency (2014–present) / Foreign policy / Europe
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current President of Turkey. He previously served as Prime Minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He founded the Justice and Development Party in 2001, leading it to election victories in 2002, 2007, and 2011 before standing down upon his election as President in 2014. He later returned to the AKP leadership in 2017 following the constitutional referendum that year. Coming from an Islamist political background and as a self-described conservative democrat, he has promoted socially conservative and populist policies during his administration.
Erdoğan played football for Kasımpaşa before being elected as the Mayor of Istanbul in 1994, as the candidate of the Islamist Welfare Party. He was later stripped of his position, banned from political office, and imprisoned for four months for inciting religious hatred, due to his recitation of a poem by Ziya Gökalp. Erdoğan subsequently abandoned openly Islamist politics, establishing the moderate conservative AKP in 2001, which he went on to lead to a landslide victory in 2002.
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In February 2016 Erdoğan threatened to send the millions of refugees in Turkey to EU member states, saying: "We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses ... So how will you deal with refugees if you don't get a deal?"
In an interview to the news magazine Der Spiegel, the German minister of defence Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday, 11 March 2016, that the refugee crisis had made good cooperation between EU and Turkey an "existentially important" issue. "Therefore it is right to advance now negotiations on Turkey's EU accession".
In its resolution "The functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey" from 22 June 2016, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe warned that "recent developments in Turkey pertaining to freedom of the media and of expression, erosion of the rule of law and the human rights violations in relation to anti-terrorism security operations in south-east Turkey have ... raised serious questions about the functioning of its democratic institutions".
On 20 August 2016 Erdoğan told his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko that Turkey would not recognize the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea; calling it "Crimea's occupation".
In January 2017, Erdoğan said that the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Northern Cyprus is "out of the question" and Turkey will be in Cyprus "forever".
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wit-train-topic-000000961
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsung_Pak_Long
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Tsung Pak Long
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Introduction
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Tsung Pak Long
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Tsung Pak Long (Chinese: 松柏塱) is a village and the name of an area in Sheung Shui, North District, Hong Kong.
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wit-train-topic-000000962
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Alloa,_Clackmannanshire
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List of listed buildings in Alloa, Clackmannanshire
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List
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List of listed buildings in Alloa, Clackmannanshire / List
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This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Alloa in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
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wit-train-topic-000000963
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Todmorden_(outer_areas)
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Listed buildings in Todmorden (outer areas)
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Buildings
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Listed buildings in Todmorden (outer areas) / Buildings
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Todmorden is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It contains over 300 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, eleven are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. This list contains the listed buildings in the more outlying areas of the parish, namely those along Rochdale Road to the south of its junction with Bacup Road, including the settlement of Walsden and Warland, along Bacup Road, including Clough Foot, and the surrounding outlying rural and moorland areas, including the settlements of Mankinholes and Lumbutts. The listed buildings in the inner area are in Listed buildings in Todmorden.
A high proportion of the listed buildings in these areas are farmhouses, farm buildings, houses and cottages, and laithe houses. The Rochdale Canal runs through the areas, and the listed buildings associated with it are bridges and locks.
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wit-train-topic-000000964
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC-550
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MBC-550
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Introduction
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MBC-550
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The Sanyo MBC-550 is a small and inexpensive personal computer in "pizza-box" style, featuring an Intel 8088 microprocessor and running a version of MS-DOS. Sold by Sanyo, it was the least expensive early IBM PC compatible.
The MBC-550 has much better video display possibilities than the CGA card (8 colors at 640x200 resolution, vs CGA's 4 colors at 320x200 or 2 colors at 640x200), but it is not completely compatible with the IBM-PC. The computer lacks a standard BIOS, having only a minimal bootloader in ROM that accesses hardware directly to load a RAM-based BIOS. The diskette format (FM rather than MFM) used is not completely compatible with the IBM PC, but special software on an original PC or PC/XT (but not PC/AT) can read and write the diskettes, and software expecting a standard 18.2 Hz clock interrupt has to be rewritten.
The MBC-550 was also the computer for NRI training. Starting by building the computer, the NRI promised you would be "qualified to service and repair virtually every major brand of computer". NRI advertised in Popular Mechanics and Popular Science throughout 1985.
The MBC-550 is less PC compatible than the IBM PCjr. Its inability to use much PC software was a significant disadvantage; InfoWorld reported in August 1985 that Sanyo "has initiated a campaign to sell off" of MBC-550 inventory. The company's newer computers were, an executive claimed, 99% PC compatible.
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wit-train-topic-000000965
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solent_Way
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Solent Way
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Introduction
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Solent Way
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The Solent Way is a 60-mile (97 km) long-distance footpath in Hampshire, southern England. With the exception of a few inland diversions, the path follows the coast of the Solent, the sea strait that separates the mainland England from the Isle of Wight. The Solent Way forms part of the E9 European Coastal Path, which runs for 5000 km (3125 miles) from Cape St Vincent in Portugal to Narva-Jõesuu in Estonia.
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wit-train-topic-000000966
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythris_potentillella
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Scythris potentillella
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Introduction
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Scythris potentillella
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Scythris potentillella is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1847. It is found in Asia Minor and Europe.
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wit-train-topic-000000967
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor_(airline)
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Condor (airline)
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Fleet
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Condor (airline) / Fleet
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Condor, legally incorporated as Condor Flugdienst GmbH, is a German charter airline based in Frankfurt. It operates scheduled flights to leisure destinations in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, South Asia and North America. Its main base is at Frankfurt Airport with further smaller bases at other German airports.
The airline was originally established as Deutsche Flugdienst GmbH on 21 December 1955. Its initial fleet consisted of three 36-passenger Vickers VC.1 Viking aircraft, the airline's first tourist-orientated flight commenced on 29 March 1956. In 1961, Deutsche Flugdienst took over its rival Condor-Luftreederei and subsequently adopted Condor Flugdienst GmbH as its operating name. During 1966, Condor launched its first long-haul flights. By this time, the airline had a majority market share of Germany's tourism air travel market. During the 1990s, Condor was restructured and merged with other businesses to become an integrated tourism concern known as C&N Touristik.
From 2000 onwards, the Condor shares held by Lufthansa were gradually acquired by both Thomas Cook AG and Thomas Cook Group.
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wit-train-topic-000000968
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hall_Historic_District_(Battle_Creek,_Michigan)
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City Hall Historic District (Battle Creek, Michigan)
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Gallery
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City Hall Historic District (Battle Creek, Michigan) / Gallery
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The City Hall Historic District is a commercial and municipal historic district located along East Michigan Avenue from Monroe to Jay Streets in Battle Creek, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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wit-train-topic-000000969
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parks_in_Boise
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List of parks in Boise
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List of parks in Boise
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List of parks in Boise / List of parks in Boise
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Over 90 parks and undeveloped sites are managed by the Parks & Recreation Department in Boise, Idaho, including 86 tennis courts, 48 soccer fields, 25 pickleball courts, 22 basketball courts, six bocce courts, three lacrosse fields, an archery range, and a cricket field. City parks also include more than 45,000 trees and 190 miles of trails covering over 4600 acres. The park system includes 11 reserves with 40 miles of trails on 4000 acres of habitat.
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wit-train-topic-000000970
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies
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Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies
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Introduction
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Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies
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Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.
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wit-train-topic-000000971
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_horn
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French horn
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Gallery
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French horn / Gallery
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The French horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B♭ is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands. A musician who plays a horn is known as a horn player or hornist.
Pitch is controlled through the combination of the following factors: speed of air through the instrument; diameter and tension of lip aperture in the mouthpiece; plus, in a modern horn, the operation of valves by the left hand, which route the air into extra sections of tubing. Most horns have lever-operated rotary valves, but some, especially older horns, use piston valves and the Vienna horn uses double-piston valves, or pumpenvalves. The backward-facing orientation of the bell relates to the perceived desirability to create a subdued sound in concert situations, in contrast to the more piercing quality of the trumpet. A horn without valves is known as a natural horn, changing pitch along the natural harmonics of the instrument. Pitch may also be controlled by the position of the hand in the bell, in effect reducing the bell's diameter.
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wit-train-topic-000000972
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren_de_las_Sierras
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Tren de las Sierras
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Introduction
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Tren de las Sierras
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Tren de las Sierras (technically known as the "A-1" branch of the General Belgrano Railway) is a regional 150.8 km (93.7 mi) regional rail line in Córdoba Province of Argentina. The line runs from Alta Córdoba to Cosquín, being currently operated by state-owned company Trenes Argentinos.
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wit-train-topic-000000973
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_319
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British Rail Class 319
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Thameslink
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British Rail Class 319 / Former operations / Thameslink
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The British Rail Class 319 is a dual-voltage electric multiple unit train capable of operating on 25 kV 50 Hz AC from overhead wires or 750 V DC from a third rail. They were built by British Rail Engineering Limited's Holgate Road carriage works for use on north-south cross-London services.
Built in two batches in 1987–88 and 1990, the units were primarily used on the then-new Thameslink service operating from Bedford to Brighton and various other destinations south of London. The majority of the fleet remained in use on the Thameslink route after its reshaping and privatisation in 1997. Some of the fleet was also used by Connex South Central and latterly Southern on various other services operating out of London Victoria, including flagship expresses to Brighton.
Since delivery of new Class 700 rolling stock for Thameslink services commenced in 2015, the Class 319 units have been redeployed for use in North West England on newly electrified lines but will be replaced in 2022 by surplus Class 323 units.
Of the 86 Class 319s built, 34 remain in active service, nineteen with Northern Trains and fifteen with West Midlands Trains.
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With the first units entering service for Thameslink in 1988, Class 319s were a mainstay on the Thameslink network for almost three decades. In early 2015, the first batch of units were withdrawn from the network after being displaced by Class 387 units.
Twenty Class 319/3s transferred to Northern Rail for newly electrified lines in the North West, with the first units entering service in March 2015 after a light refurbishment. A further seven units left the network in 2015, transferring to London Midland to replace their Class 321 units, which had transferred to Abellio ScotRail.
Since the introduction of the new Class 700 units in June 2016, Class 319s departed the network as new trains have entered service. A further batch of twelve units transferred to the North West of England for service with Arriva Rail North, with the remainder being placed into storage at Long Marston. The six remaining Class 319 units were withdrawn from Thameslink service on 27 August 2017, around 30 years after their initial introduction to service.
Since their withdrawal, a number of additional units have been allocated to Northern and West Midlands Trains to boost capacity.
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wit-train-topic-000000974
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollhofen
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Gollhofen
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Introduction
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Gollhofen
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Gollhofen is a municipality in the district of Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim in Bavaria in Germany.
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wit-train-topic-000000975
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vernon_African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church_(Palestine,_Texas)
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Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church (Palestine, Texas)
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Introduction
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Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church (Palestine, Texas)
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Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church at 913 East Calhoun Street in Palestine, Texas. It is the third oldest AME church in Texas. The church was organized by freedmen in the early 1870s. The congregation originally worshiped at a church that it shared with Missionary Baptist Church. In 1878 the church bought 2.2 acres at its present location and constructed a wood frame structure in 1885. In 1921 the structure was razed and a new church designed in a Gothic vernacular style was built. The church's two front bell towers are typical of the AME faith-based churches of the 1920s. Mount Vernon was the first church to introduce Palestine to integrated low-income apartment housing. In 1968 a 100-unit apartment housing project was erected at 2020 Sterne Avenue. In 1986 the church was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
In 1988 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The church closed its doors in 2014. In 2015, Mount Vernon was placed on Preservation Texas' Most Endangered places list.
The building is brick with Gothic Revival details.
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wit-train-topic-000000976
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_W%C3%B8llo
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Erik Wøllo
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Gallery
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Erik Wøllo / Gallery
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Erik Wøllo is a Norwegian composer and musician, guitarist and synthesist. He has a background in various genres in music. As a solo recording artist, he is most known for his electronic and ambient musical soundscapes. Music that can be classified in the genres of space, drone, new age, and electronic music. Through his many albums he has gained recognition for his unique sound and style. Using guitar as the primary instrument in a highly imaginary and emotional music, building a bridge between grand symphonic realms and gentle, minimalistic and serene atmospheres.
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Wøllo with Fender Stratocaster at Schallwelle 2012.
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wit-train-topic-000000978
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Waugh
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Steve Waugh
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Frank Worrell Trophy regained in 1995
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Steve Waugh / International career / Frank Worrell Trophy regained in 1995
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Stephen Rodger Waugh AO is a former Australian international cricketer and twin brother of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman, he was also a medium-pace bowler. As Australian captain from 1997 to 2004, he led Australia to fifteen of their record sixteen consecutive Test wins, and to victory in the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Waugh is considered the most successful Test captain in cricket history, with 41 matches won and only 9 matches lost with a winning ratio of 72%.
Born in New South Wales, with whom he began his first-class cricket career in 1984, he captained the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004, and was the most capped Test cricket player in history, with 168 appearances, until Sachin Tendulkar of India broke this record in 2010. Thought of in the early stages of his career as only a "moderately talented" player, at one point losing his Test place to his brother Mark, he went on to become one of the leading batsmen of his time. He is one of only twelve players to have scored more than 10,000 Test runs.
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The West Indies had been the bête noire of Australian cricket since winning the Frank Worrell Trophy in 1978. At the beginning of Australia's 1995 tour of the Caribbean, the West Indies had not lost a Test series since 1980, and had not lost a Test series to Australia at home since 1973. The Tests were preceded by an ODI series that was lost 1–4. Waugh scored 164 runs at 32.80 and took three wickets at 41.00. In a low-scoring, four-Test series, Waugh compiled 429 runs at an average of 107.25 and claimed five wickets (for 62 runs) to win the player of the series award; his twin Mark was the next best batsman with 240 runs at 40 average.
Waugh was at the centre of a controversy during the First Test at Barbados when he claimed a low catch from Brian Lara in the first innings. Television replays were inconclusive, but suggested that the ball may have hit the ground. Lara, noted for accepting the word of the fielder without question, left the field. Following his dismissal, the West Indies' batting collapsed, and Australia went on to win by ten wickets. Waugh later faced accusations of dishonesty and cheating over the incident.
After scoring 65 not out in the drawn Second Test at Antigua, Waugh defied the Caribbean pacemen on a green pitch at Trinidad suited to their hostile bowling during the Third Test. In the first innings, he scored an unbeaten 63 of Australia's 128 and had a mid-pitch confrontation with Curtly Ambrose. After Waugh had evaded a bouncer from Ambrose, the pair exchanged glares. Waugh swore and told Ambrose to return to his bowling mark. An angry Ambrose had to be physically dragged away by his captain: a photograph of this moment has become one of the iconic images of cricket in the 1990s. It symbolised the point when Australia was no longer intimidated by the West Indies. Waugh "showed he was prepared to put it all on the line", said Justin Langer, "in the toughest conditions [...] against probably the best fast bowler of our time. To stand up to him [Ambrose] and go toe to toe [...] gave us a huge boost."
Nevertheless, the West Indies won the match and levelled the series. In the decider in Jamaica, Waugh took 2/14 in the West Indies' first innings of 265 and then arrived at the crease with Australia at 73 for three in reply. He compiled a long partnership of 231 runs with his brother Mark, who was eventually out for 126. Waugh was the last man to go, out for 200 after nine hours of batting. "Steve had made up his mind to bat and bat", wrote Paul Reiffel, "to stay out there and anchor the proceedings. [... H]e copped a lot of blows on his arms, chest and ribs. When he came back to the dressing room at the end of day two, we could see the spots and bruises on his body [...]. I remember when I walked in [...] he didn't say anything to me, but then he didn't need to. We all pretty much knew that we just had to support him."
"He was in a trance-like state. [... I]n the wee hours of the second morning, a security guard was found rifling through Steve's kit bag. That incident [...] didn't affect his concentration. It all [...] just went to show how strong a character he was."
Waugh played patiently and reached his double century with an all-run four to fine-leg off a quicker ball from Carl Hooper. He was the last man out. With a large lead on first innings, Australia dismissed the opposition for a low score to win a crushing victory.
After some post-win wassailing, Waugh retired to bed in his cricket whites, socks and baggy green. "[Y]ou could say that Steve's legacy gained a lot of momentum from his efforts at Jamaica", wrote Reiffel.
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wit-train-topic-000000979
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marliens
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Marliens
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Introduction
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Marliens
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Marliens is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.
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wit-train-topic-000000980
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooms_To_Go
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Rooms To Go
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Introduction
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Rooms To Go
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Rooms To Go is an American furniture store chain. Based in Seffner, Florida, the company operates 226 stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in September 1990 by Jeffrey and Morty Seaman, when they sold Seaman Furniture Company. According to Furniture Today, Rooms To Go is the 3rd largest furniture retailer in the US.
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wit-train-topic-000000981
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_marriage
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Christian views on marriage
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Introduction
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Christian views on marriage
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From the earliest days of the Christian faith, Christians have honored marriage, or holy matrimony, as a divinely blessed, lifelong, monogamous union, between a man and a woman. According to the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (1979), reflecting the traditional view, "Christian marriage is a solemn and public covenant between a man and a woman in the presence of God," "intended by God for their mutual joy; for the help and comfort given one another in prosperity and adversity; and, when it is God's will, for the procreation of children and their nurture." However, while many Christians might agree with the traditional definition, the terminology and theological views of marriage have varied through time in different countries, and among Christian denominations.
Many Protestants consider marriage to be a sacred institution or "holy ordinance" of God. Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians consider marriage a holy sacrament or sacred mystery. However, there have been and are differing attitudes among denominations and individual Christians towards not only the concept of Christian marriage, but also concerning divorce, remarriage, gender roles, family authority (the "headship" of the husband), the legal status of married women, birth control, marriageable age, cousin marriage, marriage of in-laws, interfaith marriage, same-sex marriage, and polygamy, among other topics, so that in the 21st century there cannot be said to be a single, uniform, worldwide view of marriage among all who profess to be Christians.
Christian teaching has never held that marriage is necessary for everyone; for many centuries in Western Europe, priestly or monastic celibacy was valued as highly as, if not higher than, marriage. Christians who did not marry were expected to refrain from all sexual activity, as were those who took holy orders or monastic vows .
In some Western countries, a separate and secular civil wedding ceremony is required for recognition by the state, while in other Western countries, couples must merely obtain a marriage license from a local government authority and can be married by Christian or other clergy if they are authorized by law to conduct weddings. In this case, the state recognizes the religious marriage as a civil marriage as well; and Christian couples married in this way have all the rights of civil marriage, including, for example, divorce, even if their church forbids divorce.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, same-sex couples have been allowed to marry civilly in many countries, and some Christian churches in those countries allow religious marriage of same-sex couples, though others forbid it, along with all other same-sex relationships.
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wit-train-topic-000000982
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Kokolia
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Vladimír Kokolia
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Vladimír Kokolia
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Vladimír Kokolia (born 27 November 1956) is a Czech contemporary painter. Kokolia has also worked across a variety of other mediums, most notably printmaking and drawing, and is also a poet and musician.
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wit-train-topic-000000983
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus_aculeatus
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Hibiscus aculeatus
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Introduction
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Hibiscus aculeatus
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Hibiscus aculeatus is a species of plant in the family Malvaceae. Common names include comfortroot and pineland hibiscus.
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wit-train-topic-000000984
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamori_Nagachika
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Kanamori Nagachika
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Introduction
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Kanamori Nagachika
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Kanamori Nagachika (金森 長近, 1524 – September 20, 1608) was a Japanese samurai who lived from the Sengoku period into the early Edo period. He was the first ruler of the Kanamori clan and served as a retainer of the Oda, Toyotomi, and Tokugawa clans. Later in his life, he also became a daimyō.
Nagachika first served the Saitō clan of Mino Province; however, after their Demise at Battle of Inabayama 1567, he became a retainer of Oda Nobunaga. During this time he served as the ruler of Matsukura Castle and Takayama Castle.
In 1575, at Battle of Nagashino, he and Sakai Tadatsugu ambush Takeda troops and killed Takeda Nobuzane, a younger brother of Shingen.
Following Nobunaga's death in 1582, Nagachika at first sided with Shibata Katsuie, then gave his loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1585 he was dispatched to destroy the Anegakoji of Hida province and was afterwards given their castle of Takayama. He later gave his support to Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara campaign (1600) and led 1,140 men to the Battle of Sekigahara.
Nagachika was also a tea master and an admirer of Sen no Rikyū. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered Rikyū's death, Nagachika sheltered Rikyū's son, Sen Dōan.
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wit-train-topic-000000985
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Victor
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Vauxhall Victor
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VX Series
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Vauxhall Victor / FE Series Victor, VX4/90, Ventora, VX1800 and VX2300 / VX Series
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The Vauxhall Victor is a large family car which was produced by Vauxhall from 1957 to 1976. The Victor was introduced to replace the outgoing Wyvern model. It was renamed to Vauxhall VX Series in 1976 and continued in production until 1978, by which time it had grown significantly and was viewed, at least in its home market, as a larger-than-average family car.
The VX Series was replaced by the Carlton. The last Victor, the Victor FE, was also manufactured under licence by Hindustan Motors in India as the Hindustan Contessa, during the 1980s and early '90s, with an Isuzu engine.
The Victor briefly became Britain's most exported car, with sales in markets as far flung as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Asian right-hand drive markets such as Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore.
In Canada, it was marketed as both the Vauxhall Victor and the Envoy. The Victor was also instrumental in giving Vauxhall its first in-house-designed estate car, which complemented the four-door saloon.
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At the start of 1976 the relatively large 1800 cc Vauxhall Victor came with a recommended sticker price lower than that of the more modern but smaller and relatively well equipped Vauxhall Cavalier GL, which will have encouraged fleet managers to negotiate for higher discounts on the Cavalier and left the basic Victor looking embarrassingly underpriced. To try to move the Victor upmarket, Vauxhall upgraded the trim level of the basic Victor 1800 cc to match that of the 2300 cc version, with improvements that included fabric seat trim, a new clarified instrument display embellished with mock timber surround as well as a new central console. and a seat belt warning light across the range. Under the bonnet / hood various upgrades were made to the 1800 cc engine which now offered 88 bhp (66 kW; 89 PS) of output in place of the 77 bhp (57 kW; 78 PS) previously claimed. The changes carried a weight penalty, but performance was nevertheless usefully improved with top speed up from 89 mph (143 km/h) to 100 mph (161 km/h). To draw attention to the changes Vauxhall also dropped the Victor and VX 4/90 model names and the range was renamed the Vauxhall VX in January 1976. The VX Series is distinguished from the outside by a simplified grille and revised headlights.
Since the demise of the Vauxhall Cresta more than three years earlier, only the Ventora had used the old Vauxhall six-cylinder engine: but now the four-cylinder VX 2300 GLS replaced the six-cylinder FE Ventora as Vauxhall's flagship. The VX2300 GLS was fitted with four square halogen headlamps, velour upholstery, tinted glass and power steering.
The more sporting VX 4/90 was reintroduced, now based on the VX (formerly Victor FE), in March 1977 with a 5-speed close-ratio Getrag gearbox with dog-leg first gear (also featured in the VX 2300 GLS model), initially for mainland European export markets only. The car featured a modified, twin-carburettor version of the existing 2279 cc four-cylinder engine for which an output of 116 bhp (87 kW; 118 PS) was claimed, up from 108 hp (81 kW; 109 PS) in the VX 2300, and a prototype fuel-injected variant was tested but not put into production. The car was fitted with twin halogen headlights and supplementary front fog-lights fitted beneath the front bumper, and also benefitted from extra sound-deadening materials to reduce road noise. The side window frames were fashionably blackened, and only four exterior colours could be specified, of which three were metallic. The manufacturer stated that the UK market would receive right-hand-drive versions of this latest incarnation of the VX 4/90 only in 1978. In 1978 the Vauxhall Carlton (was released as a direct replacement for the VX1800/2300, production of which ended in the same year. The Carlton was based on the corresponding Opel Rekord E, and unlike the Victor FE/VX, was much closer in its engineering and body structure to its Opel sister - continuing the process of "Opelisation" of the Vauxhall range that had begun some years earlier.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000986
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaffst%C3%A4tt
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Pfaffstätt
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Introduction
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Pfaffstätt
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Pfaffstätt is a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Austrian state of Upper Austria.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000987
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_bender
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Roll bender
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Introduction
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Roll bender
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A roll bender is a mechanical jig having three rollers used to bend a metal bar into a circular arc. The rollers freely rotate about three parallel axes, which are arranged with uniform horizontal spacing. Two outer rollers, usually immobile, cradle the bottom of the material while the inner roller, whose position is adjustable, presses on the topside of the material.
Roll bending may be done to both sheet metal and bars of metal. If a bar is used, it is assumed to have a uniform cross-section, but not necessarily rectangular, as long as there are no overhanging contours, i.e. positive draft. Such bars are often formed by extrusion. The material to be shaped is suspended between the rollers. The end rollers support the bottomside of the bar and have a matching contour (inverse shape) to it in order to maintain the cross-sectional shape. Likewise, the middle roller is forced against the topside of the bar and has a matching contour to it.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000988
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_State_Protected_Monuments_in_Goa
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List of State Protected Monuments in Goa
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List of state protected monuments
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List of State Protected Monuments in Goa / List of state protected monuments
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This is a list of State Protected Monuments as officially reported by and available through the website of the Archaeological Survey of India in the Indian state Goa. The monument identifier is a combination of the abbreviation of the subdivision of the list and the numbering as published on the website of the ASI. 51 State Protected Monuments have been recognised by the ASI in Goa. Besides the State Protected Monuments, also the Monuments of National Importance in this state might be relevant.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000989
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinisches_Landesmuseum_Bonn
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Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
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Introduction
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Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
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The Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, or LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, is a museum in Bonn, Germany, run by the Rhineland Landscape Association. It is one of the oldest museums in the country. In 2003 it completed an extensive renovation. The museum has a number of notable ancient busts and figures dating back to Roman times.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000990
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitromorpha_pylei
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Mitromorpha pylei
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Introduction
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Mitromorpha pylei
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Mitromorpha pylei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000991
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_park
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Amusement park
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Pay-one-price
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Amusement park / Admission prices and admission policies / Pay-one-price
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An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes. A theme park is a type of amusement park that bases its structures and attractions around a central theme, often featuring multiple areas with different themes. Unlike temporary and mobile funfairs and carnivals, amusement parks are stationary and built for long-lasting operation. They are more elaborate than city parks and playgrounds, usually providing attractions that cater to a variety of age groups. While amusement parks often contain themed areas, theme parks place a heavier focus with more intricately-designed themes that revolve around a particular subject or group of subjects.
Amusement parks evolved from European fairs, pleasure gardens and large picnic areas, which were created for people's recreation. World's fairs and other types of international expositions also influenced the emergence of the amusement park industry. Lake Compounce opened in 1846 and is considered the oldest, continuously-operating amusement park in North America.
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An amusement park using the pay-one-price scheme will charge guests a single admission fee. The guest is then entitled to use most of the attractions (usually including flagship roller coasters) in the park as often as they wish during their visit. A daily admission pass (daypass) is the most basic fare on sale, also sold are season tickets which offer holders admission for the entire operating year (plus special privileges for the newest attractions), and express passes which gives holders priority in bypassing lineup queues for popular attractions.
Pay-one-price format parks also have attractions that are not included in the admission charge; these are called "up-charge attractions" and can include Skycoasters or go-kart tracks, or games of skill where prizes are won.
When Angus Wynne, founder of Six Flags Over Texas, first visited Disneyland upon its opening in 1955, he noted that park's pay-as-you-go format as a reason to make his park pay-one-price. He thought that a family would be more likely to visit his park if they knew, up front, how much it would cost to attend.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000992
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_toy_candy
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Clear toy candy
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Introduction
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Clear toy candy
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Clear toy candy is a traditional confectionery that originated in Germany, England and Scotland. It is especially popular at Easter and Christmas. The hard candy is made in molds, in a multitude of fanciful shapes. The candy is tinted in bright colors, traditionally yellow, red and green. A stick is sometimes added before the candy completely cools to make a lollipop.
The names clear toy candy and barley sugar are sometimes used interchangeably to refer to clear molded sugar candy. However traditional barley sugar is made with barley water, while clear toy candy is made with pure water. Unmolded barley sugar originated in France in the 1700s, while molded sugar candy (with or without barley as an ingredient) dates to the 1800s.
Confusion arises because the older term "barley sugar" became genericized and was applied to a wide range of boiled sugar candies during the 1800s.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000993
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Gunn
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Frederick William Gunn
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Introduction
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Frederick William Gunn
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Frederick William Gunn (October 4, 1816 – August 16, 1881) was an American educator, abolitionist, and outdoorsman, who in 1850 founded The Frederick Gunn School (formerly known as The Gunnery), an independent school in the small town of Washington, Connecticut, and America's first summer camp. An iconoclast and educational reformer, Gunn endured social ostracism and community exile for his abolitionist beliefs in his early life, but was able to return to his hometown of Washington, where, in addition to the school, the library and local history museum were dedicated in his name and that of his wife, Abigail (July 18, 1820 ‒ September 13, 1908). Gunn was a moral beacon for the wider community accepting girls, African Americans, Native Americans, and international students into his school. Among his first students were the children of abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. A staunch defender of his values and a natural leader of men, Gunn was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, an innovator in curriculum and student development, and is recognized as the originator of leisure camping in the United States. "A early proponent of competitive athletics as a critical part of a holistic education, Frederick Gunn also appears in what is considered to be the first photograph of a baseball game in progress.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000994
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-745,870
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L-745,870
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Introduction
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L-745,870
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L-745,870 is a drug which acts as a dopamine receptor antagonist selective for the D₄ subtype, and has antipsychotic effects in animal models, though it was not effective in human trials.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000995
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Kelly
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Leroy Kelly
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Introduction
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Leroy Kelly
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Leroy Kelly (born May 20, 1942) is a former American football player. A Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, he played for the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League (NFL) from 1964 to 1973.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000996
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette_(C3)
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Chevrolet Corvette (C3)
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Gallery
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Chevrolet Corvette (C3) / Gallery
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The Chevrolet Corvette (C3) is a sports car that was produced from 1967 to 1982 by Chevrolet for the 1968 to 1982 model years. Engines and chassis components were mostly carried over from the previous generation, but the body and interior were new. It set new sales records with 53,807 produced for the 1979 model year. The C3 is the third generation of the Chevrolet Corvette, and marks the second time the Corvette would carry the Stingray name, though only for the 1969 - 1976 model years. This time it was a single word as opposed to Sting Ray as used for the 1963 - 1967 C2 generation. The name would then be retired until 2014 when it was re-introduced with the release of the C7.
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C3 Corvette Photo Chronology
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000997
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Perle_(ballet)
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La Perle (ballet)
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Gallery
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La Perle (ballet) / Gallery
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La Perle is a ballet-divertissement in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000998
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_lights
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Christmas lights
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Examples
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Christmas lights / Light sculptures / Examples
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Christmas lights are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which symbolized Christ being the light of the world. This custom was borrowed from pagan yule rituals that celebrate the return of the light of the sun as the days grow longer after solstice: the evergreen trees symbolising the renewal and continuance of life in dark times. The Christmas trees were brought by Christians into their homes in early modern Germany.
Christmas trees displayed publicly and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century. By the mid-20th century, it became customary to display strings of electric lights along streets and on buildings; Christmas decorations detached from the Christmas tree itself. In the United States, it became popular to outline private homes with such Christmas lights in tract housing beginning in the 1960s. By the late 20th century, the custom had also been adopted in other nations, including outside the Western world, notably in Japan and Hong Kong.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000999
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Kirov
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Nikola Kirov
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Introduction
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Nikola Kirov
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Nikola Kirov-Mayski (1880, Kruševo, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire-1962, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary and public figure, a member of IMRO. Although he identified himself as Bulgarian, per negationist Macedonian historiography, he was ethnic Macedonian.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000001000
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Seo
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Hideki Seo
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Introduction
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Hideki Seo
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Hideki Seo (瀬尾 英樹 Seo Hideki) is a Japanese-born fashion designer and artist based in Paris.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000001001
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaenerion
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Chamaenerion
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Introduction
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Chamaenerion
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Chamaenerion is a genus of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae (the evening primrose or willowherb family). It is sometimes included in the genus Epilobium. Members of the genus may be called willowherbs (along with Epilobium), or fireweeds, based on a common name used for C. angustifolium. They are upright herbaceous perennials, growing from a woody base or from rhizomes, with racemes of usually purple to pink flowers. All species are found in the northern hemisphere. Most occur in moist habitats; C. angustifolium is the exception, favouring disturbed ground.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000001002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_d%27Angers
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David d'Angers
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Selected works
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David d'Angers / Selected works
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Pierre-Jean David was a French sculptor, medalist and active freemason. He adopted the name David d'Angers, following his entry into the studio of the painter Jacques-Louis David in 1809 as a way of both expressing his patrimony and distinguishing himself from the master painter.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000001003
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro
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Montenegro
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Administrative divisions
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Montenegro / Politics / Administrative divisions
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Montenegro is a country in South and Southeast Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkans. It borders Bosnia-Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Albania to the southeast, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, and Croatia to the west. Montenegro has an area of 13,812 square kilometres and a population of 620,079. Its capital, Podgorica, is one of the twenty-four municipalities in the country. Cetinje is designated as the Old Royal Capital.
During the Early Medieval period, three principalities were located on the territory of modern-day Montenegro: Duklja, roughly corresponding to the southern half; Travunia, the west; and Rascia proper, the north. In 1042, archon Stefan Vojislav led a revolt that resulted in the independence of Duklja from the Byzantine Empire and the establishment of the Vojislavljević dynasty. After being ruled by the Nemanjić dynasty for two centuries, the independent Principality of Zeta emerged in the 14th and 15th centuries, ruled by the House of Balšić between 1356 and 1421, and by the House of Crnojević between 1431 and 1498, when the name Montenegro started being used for the country.
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Montenegro is divided into twenty-three municipalities (opština). This includes 21 District-level Municipalities and 2 Urban Municipalities, with two subdivisions of Podgorica municipality, listed below. Each municipality can contain multiple cities and towns. Historically, the territory of the country was divided into "nahije".
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en
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wit-train-topic-000001004
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giunssani
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Giunssani
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Gallery
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Giunssani / Gallery
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Giussani is a microregion in the northeast of Corsica, in the department of Haute-Corse. The area is within the Balagne and is isolated between the peaks of Monte Grosso and Monte Padro.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000001005
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Cenozoic_life_of_Utah
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List of the Cenozoic life of Utah
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H
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List of the Cenozoic life of Utah / H
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This list of the Cenozoic life of Utah contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Utah and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
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†Hadrianus
†Hadrianus corsoni
†Hadrianus utahensis – type locality for species
†Haplaletes
†Haplaletes andakupensis
†Haploconus
†Haploconus angustus
†Haploconus elachistus
†Haplolambda – or unidentified comparable form
†Haplolambda simpsoni – type locality for species
†Harpagolestes
†Harpagolestes brevipes – type locality for species
†Harpagolestes leotensis – type locality for species
†Harpagolestes uintensis
†Helaletes
†Helaletes nanus
†Helodermoides – tentative report
†Heptacodon
†Herpetotherium
†Herpetotherium innominatum
†Hesperolagomys
†Hesperolagomys galbreathi
†Hessolestes
†Hessolestes ultimus – type locality for species
†Heteraletes
†Heteraletes leotanus
†Hoplochelys
†Hyaenodon
†Hyaenodon vetus – or unidentified comparable form
Hydrobia – or unidentified comparable form
†Hylobius
†Hylobius deleticius – type locality for species
†Hylomeryx
†Hylomeryx annectens
†Hylomeryx quadricuspis – type locality for species
†Hyopsodus
†Hyopsodus minusculus
†Hyopsodus paulus
†Hyopsodus uintensis – type locality for species
†Hypohippus
†Hypolagus
†Hypolagus vetus
†Hyrachyus
†Hyrachyus eximius
†Hyrachyus modestus
†Hyracodon
†Hyracodon medius
†Hyracotherium
†Hyracotherium vasacciense
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wit-train-topic-000001006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_in_Seattle
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Coffee in Seattle
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Coffeehouses
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Coffee in Seattle / Coffeehouses
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Seattle is regarded as a world center for coffee roasting and coffee supply chain management. Related to this, many of the city's inhabitants are coffee enthusiasts; the city is known for its prominent coffee culture and numerous coffeehouses.
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Seattle coffeehouse culture includes chains, such as Starbucks, Tully's Coffee and Seattle's Best Coffee, alongside many independently owned coffee shops. Independently owned coffee shops include bauhaus books + coffee, Café Allegro, Caffè Umbria, Caffe Ladro, Caffé Vita, Espresso Vivace, Monorail Espresso, Top Pot Doughnuts, Slate Coffee, Victrola, and Zoka Coffee Roaster & Tea Company.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000001007
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_dental_treatments
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History of dental treatments
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Dentures
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History of dental treatments / Dentures
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The history of dental treatments dates back to thousands of years. The scope of this article is limited to the pre-1981 history.
Regarding implants, one of the milestone progress is osseointegration which was termed in 1981 by Tomas Albrektsson.
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As early as the 7th century BC, Etruscans in northern Italy made partial dentures out of human or other animal teeth fastened together with gold bands. The Romans had likely borrowed this technique by the 5th century BC.
Wooden full dentures were invented in Japan around the early 16th century. Softened bees wax was inserted into the patient's mouth to create an impression, which was then filled with harder bees wax. Wooden dentures were then meticulously carved based on that model. The earliest of these dentures were entirely wooden, but later versions used natural human teeth or sculpted pagodite, ivory, or animal horn for the teeth. These dentures were built with a broad base, exploiting the principles of adhesion to stay in place. This was an advanced technique for the era; it would not be replicated in the West until the late 18th century. Wooden dentures continued to be used in Japan until the Opening of Japan to the West in the 19th century.
In 1728, Pierre Fauchard described the construction of dentures using a metal frame and teeth sculpted from animal bone. The first porcelain dentures were made around 1770 by Alexis Duchâteau. In 1791, the first British patent was granted to Nicholas Dubois De Chemant, previous assistant to Duchateau, for 'De Chemant's Specification':
[...] a composition for the purpose of making of artificial teeth either single double or in rows or in complete sets, and also springs for fastening or affixing the same in a more easy and effectual manner than any hitherto discovered which said teeth may be made of any shade or colour, which they will retain for any length of time and will consequently more perfectly resemble the natural teeth.
He began selling his wares in 1792, with most of his porcelain paste supplied by Wedgwood.
17th century London's Peter de la Roche is believed to be one of the first 'operators for the teeth', men who advertised themselves as specialists in dental work. They were often professional goldsmiths, ivory turners or students of barber-surgeons.
In 1820, Samuel Stockton, a goldsmith by trade, began manufacturing high-quality porcelain dentures mounted on 18-carat gold plates. Later dentures from the 1850s on were made of Vulcanite, a form of hardened rubber into which porcelain teeth were set. In the 20th century, acrylic resin and other plastics were used. In Britain, sequential Adult Dental Health Surveys revealed that in 1968 79% of those aged 65–74 had no natural teeth; by 1998, this proportion had fallen to 36%.
George Washington (1732–1799) had problems with his teeth throughout his life, and historians have tracked his experiences in great detail. He lost his first adult tooth when he was twenty-two and had only one left by the time he became president. John Adams says he lost them because he used them to crack Brazil nuts but modern historians suggest the mercury oxide, which he was given to treat illnesses such as smallpox and malaria, probably contributed to the loss. He had several sets of false teeth made, four of them by a dentist named John Greenwood. None of the sets, contrary to popular belief, were made from wood or contained any wood. The set made when he became president were carved from hippopotamus and elephant ivory, held together with gold springs. Prior to these, he had a set made with real human teeth, likely ones he purchased from "several unnamed Negroes, presumably Mount Vernon slaves" in 1784. Washington's dental problems left him in constant pain, for which he took laudanum. This distress may be apparent in many of the portraits painted while he was still in office, including the one still used on the $1 bill.
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wit-train-topic-000001008
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
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1990–91 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
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Tropical Cyclone Fatima
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1990–91 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season / Systems / Tropical Cyclone Fatima
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The 1990–91 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was fairly quiet, although activity began early and the final named storm formed at a record late date. There were seven named storms classified by the Météo-France office on Réunion, as well as three depressions; an additional depression was classified by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, an unofficial warning agency. The JTWC tracked storms in both September and October, although neither affected land. In late November, another short-lived depression formed in the northeastern portion of the basin. Activity remained minimal until January, when Tropical Storm Alison formed in the eastern portion of the basin. Later in the month, Cyclone Bella became the strongest storm of the season, reaching 10‑minute maximum sustained winds of 155 km/h. It passed near the island of Rodrigues, becoming the worst cyclone there in 20 years and killing half of the population of one endangered species. Bella also likely caused a cargo ship to go missing with 36 people on board.
Three storms developed in short succession in the second half of February.
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A surge in the monsoon trough spawned what would become Cyclone Fatima to the southwest of Sumatra. On March 21, the MFR identified a tropical disturbance in the Australian region, which crossed into the south-west Indian Ocean on the next day. Also on March 22, the MFR upgraded the storm to Tropical Storm Fatima, and the JTWC tracked the system as Tropical Cyclone 17S. The storm moved southwestward due to a ridge to the northwest, and gradually intensified. On March 25, the JTWC upgraded Fatima to the equivalent of a minimal hurricane, although the MFR only estimated 10‑minute winds of 95 km/h (60 mph) at that time. Due to a break in the ridge, Fatima turned toward the south on March 26, around the time that the JTWC estimated peak 1‑minute winds of 165 km/h (105 mph). The storm later turned more to the southeast, although it shifted back to the southwest on March 29. On the next day, the MFR upgraded Fatima to tropical cyclone status and estimated peak 10‑minute winds of 135 km/h (85 mph). Fatima turned back to the southeast on March 31 and accelerated, weakening to tropical storm status due to upper-level wind shear. As it was approaching 90° E, Fatima became extratropical on April 1.
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wit-train-topic-000001009
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Riv%C3%A9-King
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Julie Rivé-King
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Introduction
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Julie Rivé-King
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Julie Rivé-King (30 October 1854 – 28 July 1937) was an American pianist and composer.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000001010
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Wiltshire
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List of Grade I listed buildings in Wiltshire
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Wiltshire
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List of Grade I listed buildings in Wiltshire / Wiltshire
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This is a list of Grade I listed buildings in Wiltshire, England, in the United Kingdom.
These buildings are protected for their historic significance. There is a parallel system for ancient monuments, known as 'scheduling', which means that there is not a consistent approach to sites like castles, abbeys and henges, which may be listed, scheduled or both. In England, the listing is administered by Historic England, an agency of the government's Department for Culture, Media & Sport.
Buildings of outstanding architectural or historic interest are listed at Grade I, and of the approximately 372,905 listed buildings in England, over 9,000 are Grade I. Estimates to the numbers of buildings do, however, vary given that separate listings apply to structurally separate buildings: therefore a street of houses can be listed as one building, but a church wall can be listed separately from the church. Some buildings are listed for their group value.
This list covers the nearly 300 Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, grouped by former district.
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wit-train-topic-000001011
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_languages
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Sámi languages
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Introduction
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Sámi languages
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Sámi languages (/ˈsɑːmi/), in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme north-western Russia). There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages. Several spellings have been used for the Sámi languages, including Sámi, Sami, Saami, Saame, Sámic, Samic and Saamic, as well as the exonyms Lappish and Lappic. The last two, along with the term Lapp, are now often considered pejorative.
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wit-train-topic-000001012
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948
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1948
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August
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1948 / Births / August
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1948 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
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August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (d. 2009)
August 2
Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host, author
Bob Rae, Canadian politician
August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
August 7 – James P. Allison, American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 12 – Mizengo Pinda, 9th Prime Minister of Tanzania
August 13 – Kathleen Battle, African-American soprano
August 14 – Joseph Marcell, English actor
August 15
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian cleric, politician (d. 2018)
George Ryton, Singapore-born English Formula One engineer
August 18 – Sean Scanlan, Scottish actor (d. 2017)
August 19 – Loredana Lopez, Spanish singer (d. 1996)
Robert Hughes, Australian actor
Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
Deana Martin, American singer and actress
August 20
John Noble, Australian actor
Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
Barbara Allen Rainey (b. Barbara Ann Allen), American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed forces (d. 1982)
August 21 – Sharon M. Draper, American children's book author (Out of My Mind (Draper novel))
August 22 – David Marks, American guitarist (The Beach Boys)
August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet, Russian physicist
August 24
Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician
Sauli Niinisto, Finnish politician, 12th President of Finland
Kim Sung-il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
Vicente Sotto III, Filipino actor, host and politician
August 25 – Tony Ramos, Brazilian actor
August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
August 30
Lewis Black, American comedian
Fred Hampton, African-American activist (d. 1969)
Victor Skumin, Russian scientist, professor
August 31
Cyril Jordan, American musician
Holger Osieck, German football manager
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wit-train-topic-000001013
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireweed_Studio
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Fireweed Studio
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Building
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Fireweed Studio / Building
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The Fireweed Studio is a log cabin in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, located in Somba K'e Park near City Hall. It was built in the late 1930s to house explosives at what later became Giant Mine, and later moved to its present location. In 1996 it was listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places; two years later it was designated a city Heritage Building for its status as a well-preserved remnant of the city's early years.
Following its construction, it was used for a year to store explosives. After more modern facilities were built for that purpose, reagents were stored there during the 1940s, as well as other mining supplies. It was sold to the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce in 1973, and was renovated for use as a tourist center. More recently, after some further renovations, it has served as a gift shop operated by the Yellowknife Guild of Arts and Crafts during summer months.
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Fireweed Studio is located along the west side of 49th Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets, at the eastern edge of the small Somba K'e Park. On the north side of the park is Yellowknife's modern brick city hall. An open expanse of grass to the west descends via a series of terraces with concrete retaining walls to a concrete tiled walkway at the edge of Frame Lake. South is a curved parking lot and wooded parkland. Across the street are residential properties amid parking lots with some mature trees along the edges, buffering the neighbourhood from the denser development and high-rises along Franklin Avenue, the city's main street, a block to the east.
The building itself is a one-storey log cabin slightly rectangular in shape, with a few small trees, mostly white spruce, at the sides and rear. It sits on a concrete foundation and is topped with a front-gabled roof pierced in the centre by a small modern chimney. The logs are stained brown and form saddle joints at the corners.
In the middle of the three front bays on the east (front) facade is a door of vertical flushboard in a plain wooden surround, with rusted metal strap hinges; a wooden screen door is behind it. It is the only entrance. A horizontal sign above the lintel says "Fireweed Studio". To its south is an interpretive plaque.
Both sides have windows in the second and fourth of their five bays covered by locked vertical flushboard shutters similar to the door when the building is closed. The rear is completely blind; a modern electric meter is affixed to it near the southern corner. A narrow plain wooden frieze on narrow eaves marks the roofline. The roof itself is covered with asphalt shingles.
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wit-train-topic-000001014
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_32
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New York State Route 32
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Newburgh to New Paltz
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New York State Route 32 / Route description / Newburgh to New Paltz
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New York State Route 32 is a north–south state highway that extends for 176.73 miles through the Hudson Valley and Capital District regions of the U.S. state of New York. It is a two-lane surface road for nearly its entire length, with few divided and no limited-access sections. From Harriman to Albany, it is closely parallel to Interstate 87 and U.S. Route 9W, overlapping with the latter in several places.
NY 32 begins at NY 17 on the outskirts of the New York metropolitan area in Woodbury just outside Harriman, and ends at NY 196 east of Hudson Falls just south of the Adirondacks. In between, the road passes through the cities of Newburgh, Kingston, Albany, Cohoes, and Glens Falls. Outside of the cities, it offers views of the Hudson Highlands, Shawangunk Ridge, Catskill Mountains, and, during an overlap with US 4 north of Albany, the Hudson River.
The roads now making up the highway were originally part of several privately maintained turnpikes, which fostered settlements along the corridor. Once part of the former NY 58, it has been NY 32 since 1930. Only one of three letter-suffixed spur routes remains.
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Newburgh has a commercial strip north of the city, featuring the Mid-Valley Mall and another large shopping plaza built around a supermarket anchor. This development ends after 1 mile (1.6 km) when 32 passes the Town of Newburgh's Cronomer Hill Park on the south, near a short drive to the summit observation tower. 2 miles (3 km) more brings NY 32 to the center of the hamlet of Cronomer Valley and an unusual junction with NY 300. At what seems to be a conventional four-way intersection regulated by a traffic light, both highways turn, and it is necessary to turn to the northeast to stay on NY 32 headed north. Traffic that goes straight at this intersection flows onto NY 300.
From this intersection, NY 32 passes Chadwick Lake, the town's reservoir, and continues straight north through much less-developed, mostly wooded countryside for 4 miles (6 km) to the Ulster County line, almost the point at which the woods diminish. Barely 1 mile (1.6 km) into Plattekill, the highway crosses the Thruway again. It curves northwards shortly thereafter, retaining a slightly westward trend through mostly open fields near the Shawangunk Ridge. At 4.5 miles (7.2 km) from the Thruway, NY 32 intersects US 44 and NY 55 in the center of another Town of Plattekill hamlet, Modena. A short distance beyond, the highway crosses into Gardiner, taking a wide bend around Locust Lawn, the Federal-style home of early 19th-century politician Josiah Hasbrouck.
North of Modena, the surrounding area becomes slightly more wooded near where NY 32 crosses into the Town of New Paltz. The highway curves before entering the village next to the campus of State University of New York at New Paltz. Two blocks north of campus, at New Paltz Middle School, it turns west at a traffic signal to join NY 299 as the village's Main Street.
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wit-train-topic-000001015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Wheaton
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Westfield Wheaton
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History
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Westfield Wheaton / History
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Westfield Wheaton is a two-level enclosed shopping mall in Wheaton, Maryland. It is owned by The Westfield Group.
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On March 23, 1954, real estate developer Simon Sherman announced he had bought 80 acres of land in Wheaton from Charles Heitmuller for $800,000. Heitmuller was a farmer who sold fruit wholesale. At the time Sherman announced the purchase, Sherman would not disclose the plans for the site. Sherman later successfully petitioned to have the zoning for a portion of the land changed from residential to commercial zoning.
Simon Sherman announced plans for a shopping mall in Wheaton on February 9, 1955. The planned shopping mall would include 50 stores in eight buildings on 15 acres, and another 40 acres of parking and access roads.
The Wheaton Plaza's official groundbreaking was held on January 21, 1956. Giant Foods became the first store to open on the site on September 17, 1956. A Shell service station opened on Veirs Mills Road in August 1957.
The developer applied for a zoning exception in order to allow a parking lot to be built on the land that had been zoned for residential use. The surrounding neighborhood advocated against the zoning exception, saying that the proposed five-foot fence surrounding the parking lot would be insufficient. Montgomery County approved the zoning exception on the condition that the developer only constructed entrances and exits on Viers Mill Road and Kensington-Wheaton Road. Isadore M. Gudelsky and Theodore N. Lerner took over as the developers at the end of 1957.
On the day before it opened, the Woodward & Lothrop store was picketed because the tea room in its location in Chevy Chase refused service to African Americans.
Wheaton Plaza officially opened on February 5, 1960, as a single-level, open-air mall, with Woodward & Lothrop and Montgomery Ward as anchors. Thirteen other stores also opened on the same date. Wheaton Plaza's grand opening celebration was held on March 31, 1960.
Wheaton Plaza was built in a modified Georgian architectural style with bubbles, globes, and hemispheres as part of the exterior design. It was decorated with Italian marble, exotic woods, and Florentine glass mosaic panels. There was a marble-tiled fountain that was sculpted by Barbara Chase-Riboud, art instructor from Yale University. The center pathway was an open-air plaza, lined with boxed evergreen trees.
At the time of its opening, Wheaton Plaza was the largest shopping center in the Washington Metropolitan Area and the sixth largest in the United States. 411,000 people visited Wheaton Plaza during its first week.
By March 1960, stores at Wheaton Plaza included Strosnider's Hardware, Bank of Silver Spring, Lamp & Shade Center, Raleigh's Haberdasher, Baker Shoes, E. D. Edwards Shoe Store, Embassy Men's Wear, Hanover Shoes, Peoples Drug Store, Dolls and Dames, Miles Shoes, Happy Time Togs, Hahn Shoes, Variety Records, Fannie May Candy Store, Lerner Shops, National Shirt Shops, Vincent & Vincent, Webster Clothes, Winthrop Jewelers, Kay Jewelers, and Hot Shoppes. Unconventionally, the developers decided where tenants' stores needed to be located, rather than allow tenants to choose. Rents were relatively high.
Store owners in downtown Silver Spring considered Wheaton Plaza to be a threat. Developer Theodore N. Lerner said Wheaton Plaza "is the way the future's going to be—a suburban 'downtown' with a mall and free parking."
In May 1960, John F. Kennedy visited Wheaton Plaza during his presidential campaign. Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at a campaign rally for Kennedy in November 1960.
In 1962, construction started on Wheaton Plaza's second office building. At ten stories high, it was the largest office building in Montgomery County. Hechinger opened a store at Wheaton Plaza on December 13, 1963.
In 1964, the nation's first self-service post office opened in Wheaton Plaza. The post office had vending machines for stamps and envelopes, and scales for customers to use. It was located in a plywood shelter in the parking lot.
Wheaton Plaza remained the largest shopping center in the area until the Lerner-Gudelsky development Tysons Corner Center opened in 1968.
Wheaton Plaza was the site of the 1975 disappearanc
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wit-train-topic-000001016
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baitul_Hamd_Mosque,_Mississauga
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Baitul Hamd Mosque, Mississauga
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Introduction
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Baitul Hamd Mosque, Mississauga
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The Baitul Hamd (House of The Praise) is a mosque in Mississauga, Ontario west of Toronto run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMJ) in Canada. It was purchased in 1999 from Trinity Club House. much of the exterior of the building has remained the same. The interior has been transformed into a place of worship. This building houses separate places of worship differentiated by gender, A large Islamic Library, A Homeopathic clinic, A large cafeteria and commercial kitchen and several offices along with a full size basketball court as well as volleyball net on the exterior. This Building has also served as the Jamia Ahmadiyya (Missionary Training College) for North America from 2003 - 2010. This mosques serves the needs of the communities of Mississauga.
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wit-train-topic-000001017
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintin_Brand
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Quintin Brand
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Introduction
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Quintin Brand
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Air Vice-Marshal Sir Christopher Joseph Quintin Brand, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC (25 May 1893 – 7 March 1968) was a South African officer of the Royal Air Force.
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wit-train-topic-000001018
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebiryraw_I
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Nebiryraw I
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Introduction
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Nebiryraw I
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Sewadjenre Nebiryraw (also Nebiriau I, Nebiryerawet I) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Theban-based 16th Dynasty, during the Second Intermediate Period.
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wit-train-topic-000001019
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunic_(military)
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Tunic (military)
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Gallery
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Tunic (military) / Gallery
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A military tunic is a type of medium length coat or jacket, the lower hem of which reaches down to the thighs all the way round. It is named after the tunic, a garment of similar length worn in Ancient Rome.
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wit-train-topic-000001020
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Armed_Forces_Search_and_Rescue
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Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue
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Resources
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Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue / Resources
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Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue is the collective name used to refer to search and rescue resources and operations within the Canadian Armed Forces. CAFSAR is currently the responsibility of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Canadian Forces search and rescue resources are mostly in the form of squadrons of dedicated SAR aircraft located at bases across the country supported by 750 personnel, which includes ground crew, air crew, and 150 Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR Techs). CF SAR operations occasionally provide assistance to civilian agencies which lack the resources and equipment to conduct a large scale SAR operation.
Search and Rescue technicians (SAR Techs)
Search and Rescue technicians are advanced trauma life support pararescue specialists trained in military freefall, diving, mountaineering, rappeling, wilderness survival in extreme conditions, hoist rescue operations and various other rescue-related tasks, such as securing landing zones/drop zones or leading mountain rescue operations in coordination with civilian agencies and volunteer organizations. After a two-week selection period, SAR Techs undergo 11 months of initial training at the Canadian Forces School of Search and Rescue, based at 19 Wing Comox in British Columbia.
Squadrons
103 Search and Rescue Squadron - 9 Wing Gander
413 Transport and Rescue Squadron - 14 Wing Greenwood
424 Transport and Rescue Squadron - 8 Wing Trenton
435 Transport and Rescue Squadron - 17 Wing Winnipeg
442 Transport and Rescue Squadron - 19 Wing Comox
Equipment
CH-149 Cormorant, land-based SAR helicopter
CH-146 Griffon, land-based SAR helicopter
CC-130 Hercules, transport and rescue (long-range)
CC-115 Buffalo, transport and rescue
Additional resources available for SAR include:
CC-138 Twin Otter, primarily transport aircraft. The Twin Otters often participate in Arctic SAR missions because they are the only RCAF aircraft permanently based in Northern Canada.
CP-140 Aurora, anti-submarine/marine reconnaissance fixed wing (sometimes used to assist search and rescue in marine operations).
Retired aircraft (1968–present):
CH-113 Labrador, helicopter (replaced by CH-149 Cormorant)
CH-118 Iroquois, land based SAR helicopter (replaced by CH-146 Griffon)
Vertol Model H-21B or Vertol Model 44A (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Grumman SA-16 Albatross (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Consolidated PBY Canso (Royal Canadian Air Force)
C-47 Dakota (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sikorsky S-55 (Royal Canadian Navy)
CH-124 Sea King, anti-submarine/multimission helicopter
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wit-train-topic-000001021
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frying_Pan_Shoals_Light
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Frying Pan Shoals Light
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Introduction
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Frying Pan Shoals Light
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Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower is a decommissioned lighthouse located on the Frying Pan Shoals approximately 39 miles (63 km) southeast of Southport, North Carolina and 32 miles (51 km) from Bald Head Island, North Carolina. The tower is currently privately owned and was formerly a bed and breakfast retreat, and is noted for its survival through several significant tropical storms.
The light tower is modeled after a steel oil drilling platform, known as a "Texas tower", on top of four steel legs that was engineered to be used as a lighthouse housing several Coast Guard members. The 80-foot (24 m) light tower marks the shoals at the confluence of the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean.
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wit-train-topic-000001022
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Mandlik
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Ravi Mandlik
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Gallery
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Ravi Mandlik / Gallery
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Ravi Mandlik रवि मंडलिक is an Indian artist.
He completed his G.D. Art in painting from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai. He was a member of the teaching faculty of L.S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai and Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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wit-train-topic-000001023
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterway_trail_on_the_Moosalbe
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Waterway trail on the Moosalbe
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Introduction
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Waterway trail on the Moosalbe
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The Waterway trail on the Moosalbe (German: Gewässerwanderweg an der Moosalbe) is one of seven themed walks on the subject of hydrology in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The path runs for over 33 km along the Moosalbe and Hirschalbe streams through the Palatine Forest and has 23 way stations.
Documentation by the State Ministry for the Environment and Forests describes the route and gives detailed information on the geology, hydrology und climate of the area.
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wit-train-topic-000001024
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philaethria
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Philaethria
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Species
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Philaethria / Species
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Philaethria is a genus of New World butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae.
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The following is a list of species classified under Philaethria:
Philaethria andrei Brevignon, 2002 - Found in Macouria, French Guiana
Philaethria constantinoi Salazar, 1991 - (incertae sedis) Found in the Chocó Department of western Colombia
Philaethria diatonica (Fruhstorfer, 1912) - Found in Central America and Mexico
Philaethria dido (Linnaeus, 1763) – scarce bamboo page, longwing dido, or green heliconia – The most widespread species of Philaethria. It can be found as far north as Mexico and Texas to as far south as the Amazon basin.
Philaethria ostara (Röber, 1906) - Found in the Cauca Department of western Colombia
Philaethria pygmalion (Fruhstorfer, 1912) - Found in the state of Pará, Brazil
Philaethria wernickei (Röber, 1906) - Found in the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul of Brazil
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wit-train-topic-000001025
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goguryeo
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Goguryeo
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Introduction
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Goguryeo
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Goguryeo (고구려; 高句麗; [ko.ɡu.ɾjʌ], 37 BC–668 AD), also called Goryeo (고려; 高麗; [ko.ɾjʌ]), was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Manchuria. At its peak of power, Goguryeo controlled most of the Korean peninsula, large parts of Manchuria and parts of the Russian Far East and eastern Mongolia.
Along with Baekje and Silla, Goguryeo was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. It was an active participant in the power struggle for control of the Korean peninsula and was also associated with the foreign affairs of neighboring polities in China and Japan.
The Samguk sagi, a 12th-century text from Goryeo, indicates that Goguryeo was founded in 37 BC by Jumong (Korean: 주몽; Hanja: 朱蒙), a prince from Buyeo, who was enthroned as Dongmyeong.
Goguryeo was one of the great powers in East Asia, until its defeat by a Silla–Tang alliance in 668 after prolonged exhaustion and internal strife caused by the death of Yeon Gaesomun. After its fall, its territory was divided among the states of Later Silla and Balhae.
The name Goryeo (alternatively spelled Koryŏ), a shortened form of Goguryeo (Koguryŏ), was adopted as the official name in the 5th century, and is the origin of the English name "Korea".
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wit-train-topic-000001026
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artak_Ghulyan
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Artak Ghulyan
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Works and designs
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Artak Ghulyan / Works and designs
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Artak Ghulyan, is an Armenian architect and designer, Doctor of Architecture, Docent, and professor of the International Academy of Architecture. In September 2013, he received the title of "Honored Architect of the Republic of Armenia". In December 2013, he received the "State Prize of the Republic of Armenia" for the design of the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Manuscript Library building at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
Ghulyan is an author of many civil buildings and monuments, but his fame is mainly based on his evolutionary designs of new Armenian churches.
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Artak Ghulyan has designed many Armenian churches throughout Armenia as well as the Armenian diaspora. His notable works include:
Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Manuscript Library of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Vagharshapat, opened in October 2012.
Saint John the Baptist Church, Abovyan, opened in May 2013.
Armenian Monastery Complex of Moscow: Holy Transfiguration Cathedral and the Church of the Holy Cross, opened in September 2013.
Surp Hovhannes Church, Berd, opened in September 2014.
Surp Karapet Church, near Jordan River, Jordan, opened in October 2014.
Church of the Holy Archangels, Sevan, opened in March 2015.
Church of the Holy Martyrs in Nubarashen, Yerevan, opened in April 2015.
Surp Hovhannes Church, Artashat, opened in May 2015.
Church of the Holy Saviour, Nor Hachn, opened in July 2015.
Eurnekian School of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Vagharshapat, opened in September 2017.
Holy Cross Church of Arabkir District, Yerevan, opened in April 2018.
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wit-train-topic-000001027
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR3A
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HTR3A
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Introduction
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HTR3A
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5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HTR3A gene.
The product of this gene belongs to the ligand-gated ion channel receptor superfamily. This gene encodes subunit A of the type 3 receptor for 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin), a biogenic hormone that functions as a neurotransmitter, a hormone, and a mitogen. This receptor causes fast, depolarizing responses in neurons after activation. The A subunit is the only one that can be expressed alone and forms homomers with a very low single channel conductance of 0.6pS. When combined with the B subunit and expressed as a heteromer, the single channel conductance increases immensely. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified.
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wit-train-topic-000001028
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saransk
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Saransk
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Sport
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Saransk / Sport
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Saransk is the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, as well as its financial and economic centre. It is located in the Volga basin at the confluence of the Saranka and Insar Rivers, about 630 kilometers east of Moscow. Saransk was one of the host cities of the official tournament of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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Saransk is a major sports center of the Volga region. The city has several large sports facilities, such as the Republican Palace of Sports, Ice Palace, Mordovia Sports Complex, Leonid Arkaev Gymnastics Center, various sports and fitness clubs and gyms. The city territory accommodates two large stadiums: Start and Mordovia Arena.
Mordovia has extensive experience as a host to federal and international sporting events. In 2012, Saransk hosted the IAAF World Race Walking Cup, while the city's FC Mordovia Saransk played three seasons in the Russian Premier League against the country's leading football clubs.
In 2016, Mordovia was named the most athletic region in the country. The number of locals engaged in regular sports activities is growing and is as of today at 36%. There are over 2100 sports facilities in Saransk. Those include:
Mordovia Arena stadium. A stadium that hosted the group matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Athletics Sports School for Olympic Reserve
Mordovia Sports Complex
Ice Palace of the Republic of Mordovia
Palace of Sports
Olimp Sports Complex
Formula S Sports and Entertainment Complex
Mordovia Tennis Center
Skiing and Biathlon Complex of the Republic of Mordovia
Start Stadium
Palace of Water Sports
Saransk Stadium
From 16 to 28 June 2018, Saransk hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Mordovia Arena hosted four group stage matches.
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wit-train-topic-000001029
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Recorded_Texas_Historic_Landmarks_(Anderson-Callahan)
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List of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (Anderson-Callahan)
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Burnet County
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List of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (Anderson-Callahan) / Burnet County
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The following is an introductory partial list in a series of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks arranged by county as designated by the Texas Historical Commission and local county historical commissions in Texas. This initial page includes RTHLs in the following counties: Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Aransas, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, Austin, Bailey, Bandera, Bastrop, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos, Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, and Callahan.
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Landmarks with multiple historic designations are colored according to their highest designation within the following hierarchy.
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wit-train-topic-000001030
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsworth,_Maine
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Ellsworth, Maine
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Demographics
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Ellsworth, Maine / Demographics
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Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Maine, United States. The 2010 Census determined it had a population of 7,741. Ellsworth was Maine's fastest growing city from 2000–2010, with a growth rate of nearly 20 percent, but 2010-2014 saw only a gain of 102 people per Portland Press Herald data. With historic buildings and other points of interest, including the nearby Acadia National Park, Ellsworth is popular with tourists.
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wit-train-topic-000001031
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Barisic
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Zoran Barisic
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Introduction
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Zoran Barisic
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Zoran Barisic (Croatian: Barišić; born 22 May 1970) is a retired Austrian football player and manager. He is currently the sporting director of Rapid Wien.
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wit-train-topic-000001033
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink
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Timex Datalink
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Wrist app examples
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Timex Datalink / Timex Datalink USB / Wrist apps / Wrist app examples
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Timex Datalink or Timex Data Link is a line of early smartwatches manufactured by Timex and is considered a wristwatch computer. It is the first watch capable of downloading information wirelessly from a computer. As the name implies, datalink watches are capable of data transfer through linking with a computer. The Datalink line was introduced in 1994 and it was co-developed with Microsoft as a wearable alternative to mainstream PDAs with additional attributes such as water resistance, that PDAs lacked, and easy programmability. The watch was demonstrated by Bill Gates on 21 June 1994 in a presentation where he downloaded information from a computer monitor using bars of light and then showed to the audience the downloaded appointments and other data. The early models included models 50, 70, 150 and model 150s. The model numbers indicated the approximate number of phone numbers that could be stored in the watch memory. These early models were, at the time of their introduction, the only watches to bear the Microsoft logo. The watches have been certified by NASA for space travel and have been used by astronauts and cosmonauts in space missions.
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wit-train-topic-000001034
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blechhammer
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Blechhammer
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Introduction
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Blechhammer
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The Blechhammer (English: sheet metal hammer) area was the location of Nazi Germany chemical plants, prisoner of war (POW) camps, and forced labor camps (German: Arbeitslager Blechhammer; also Nummernbücher). Labor camp prisoners began arriving as early as June 17, 1942, and in July 1944, 400–500 men were transferred from the Terezin family camp to Blechhammer. The mobile "pocket furnace" (German: Taschenofen) crematorium was at Sławięcice.) and Bau und Arbeits Battalion (BAB, English: Construction Battalion) 21 was a mile from the Blechhammer oil plants and was not far from Kattowitz and Breslau. Blechhammer synthetic oil production began April 1, 1944 with 4000 prisoners, with the slave labor camp holding these prisoners during April 1944, becoming a satellite camp of the dreaded Auschwitz extermination camp, as Arbeitslager Blechhammer.
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wit-train-topic-000001035
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_(novel_series)
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Patriots (novel series)
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Introduction
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Patriots (novel series)
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The Patriots novel series is a five-novel series by survivalist novelist and former U.S. Army officer and blogger, James Wesley Rawles. It is followed by his Counter-Caliphate Chronicles novel series.
Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, the first book in the series, was first distributed as shareware in 1995 and first published in paperback in 1998. It was updated and re-published in paperback 2009, and then in hardback in 2012. In one week of April 2009, shortly after its release, it was ranked #6 in Amazon.com's overall book sales rankings, which was attributed by the Library Journal to the book's appeal to "a small but vociferous group of people concerned with survivalism".
Set in the near future midst hyperinflation and a catastrophic global economic collapse, Patriots tells the story of a group of survivalists that flee riots and chaos in metropolitan Chicago to a survivalist retreat that they have prepared near Bovill, Idaho.
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wit-train-topic-000001036
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truppenamt
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Truppenamt
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Chiefs of Troop Office (1919–1935)
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Truppenamt / Chiefs of Troop Office (1919–1935)
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The Truppenamt or 'Troop Office' was the cover organisation for the German General Staff from 1919 through until 1935 when the General Staff of the German Army was re-created. This subterfuge was deemed necessary in order for Germany to be seen to meet the requirements of the Versailles Treaty. It completely revised German tactical and strategic doctrine and thereby conserved, re-energised and unified the military thinking and capability of the Reichswehr, later to become the Wehrmacht.
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wit-train-topic-000001037
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Hamdullah
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Sheikh Hamdullah
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Life and work
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Sheikh Hamdullah / Life and work
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Sheikh Hamdullah, born in Amasya, Ottoman Empire, was a master of Islamic calligraphy.
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Sheikh Hamdullah was born in Amasya, a north-central town in Anatolia. His father, Mustafa Dede, was the Sheik of the Suhreverdi, a group that had migrated to Amasya from Central Asia.
In Amasya, he studied the six scripts under the tutelage of Hayreddin Mar'asi. He learned the traditional method of the old masters, but struggled to reproduce it. While studying, he met Bâyezïd, the son of Sultan Mehmed, the Conqueror who was a fellow student, and the pair became friends. When Bâyezïd assumed the throne in 1481, following his father's death, he invited his friend, Sheikh Hamdullah, to the capital, Istanbul. Hamdullah went on to become a master calligrapher at the Imperial Palace.
In 1485, Bâyezïd II acquired seven works by the great calligrapher, Yaqut al-Musta'simi. Bâyezïd then encouraged his court calligrapher, Hamdullah, to devise a new script, inspired by the acquisition. Hamdullah regarded al-Musta'simi's work as unsurpassable, but at Bâyezïd's insistence, Hamdullah reluctantly agreed. Scholars have suggested that Bâyezïd's enthusiasm for a new script was symbolic of his desire to establish a new empire and a new dynasty.
Hamdullah underwent a period of reclusion during which time he claimed that a prophet taught him the new scripts in a vision. He ultimately recodified and refined the nashk style of calligraphy, originally developed by Yaqut al-Musta'simi. Hamdullah's scripts were more elegant, balanced and legible. From 1500, the majority of Q'rans adopted Hamdallah's new style, which became known as the Ottoman style or "Seyh's manner'. For this, he is often considered to be the "father of Ottoman calligraphy". His many students spread his style throughout the Ottoman Empire. His style endured for 150 years, making him one of the greatest Ottoman calligraphers of all time. As much as two centuries later, students of calligraphy such as Hâfiz Osman continued to copy his works assiduously as part of their training.
He devoted his whole life to the art of calligraphy, continuing to produce works well into his 80s. He produced 47 Mus'hafs, book of Quran, and innumerable En'ams, Evrads and Juz', a number of which are held in the collection of the Topkapi Palace. His inscriptions also decorate the Bâyezïd, Firuzaga and Davud Mosques in Istanbul and the Bâyezïd Mosque in Erdine.
His son, Mawlana Dede Chalabi, became a calligrapher after studying with Hamdallah (his father) and Hamdallah's daughter, whose name is unknown, married a calligrapher by the name of Shukrullah Halife of Amasya, who had also been one of her father's pupils. Hamdullah's grandsons also became calligraphers; Pir Muhammad Dede (d. 986/1580, son of Hamdallah's daughter) and Dervish Muhammad (d. 888/1483, son of Mawlana Dede).
As his reputation grew, many myths to his abilities outside calligraphy sprang up. It was said that he was a great archer, falconer, swimmer and even an extraordinary tailor.
He died in Istanbul in 1520 and was buried at Karacaahmet Cemetery in the district of Üsküdar at Istanbul. Surviving examples of his works are held in the Topkapi Collection.
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wit-train-topic-000001038
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_Tunnel
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Wapping Tunnel
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Introduction
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Wapping Tunnel
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Wapping or Edge Hill Tunnel in Liverpool, England, is a tunnel route from the Edge Hill junction in the east of the city to the Liverpool south end docks formerly used by trains on Liverpool-Manchester line railway. The tunnel alignment is roughly east to west. The tunnel was designed by George Stephenson with construction between 1826 and 1829 to enable goods services to operate between Liverpool docks and all locations up to Manchester, as part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It was the first tunnel in the world to be bored under a city. The tunnel is 2,030 metres (1.26 mi) long, running downhill from the western end of the 262 metres (0.163 mi) long Cavendish cutting at Edge Hill in the east of the city, to Park Lane Goods Station near Wapping Dock in the west. The Edge Hill portal is near the former Crown Street Station goods yard. The tunnel passes beneath the Merseyrail Northern Line tunnel approximately a quarter of a mile south of Liverpool Central underground station.
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wit-train-topic-000001039
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_480
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California State Route 480
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Gallery
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California State Route 480 / Gallery
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State Route 480 was a state highway in San Francisco, California, United States, consisting of the elevated double-decker Embarcadero Freeway, the partly elevated Doyle Drive approach to the Golden Gate Bridge and the proposed and unbuilt section in between. The unbuilt section from Doyle Drive to Van Ness Avenue was to have been called the Golden Gate Freeway and the Embarcadero Freeway as originally planned would have extended from Van Ness along the north side of Bay Street and then along the Embarcadero to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
The Embarcadero Freeway, which had only been constructed from Broadway along the Embarcadero to the Bay Bridge, was demolished after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and Doyle Drive is now part of U.S. Route 101. SR 480 was Interstate 480, an auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System, from 1955 to 1965. The entire route was removed in 1991, approximately two years after the earthquake.
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wit-train-topic-000001040
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_cuisines
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List of European cuisines
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Northern European cuisine
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List of European cuisines / Northern European cuisine
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This is a list of European cuisines. A cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, often associated with a specific culture. European cuisine refers collectively to the cuisines of Europe and other Western countries. European cuisine includes cuisines of Europe, including that of Russia, as well as non-indigenous cuisines of North America, Australasia, Oceania, and Latin America, which derive substantial influence from European settlers in those regions. The term is used by East Asians to contrast with Asian styles of cooking. This is analogous to Westerners referring collectively to the cuisines of Asian countries as Asian cuisine. When used by Westerners, the term may refer more specifically to cuisine in Europe; in this context, a synonym is Continental cuisine, especially in British English.
The cuisines of Western countries are diverse by themselves, although there are common characteristics that distinguishes Western cooking from cuisines of Asian countries and others. Compared with traditional cooking of Asian countries, for example, meat is more prominent and substantial in serving-size.
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Baltic cuisines
Estonian cuisine
Latvian cuisine
Lithuanian cuisine
Cuisines of the Islands of the North Atlantic (IONA)
Irish cuisine
British cuisine is the specific set of cooking traditions and practices associated with the United Kingdom. British cuisine has been described as "unfussy dishes made with quality local ingredients, matched with simple sauces to accentuate flavour, rather than disguise it." However, British cuisine has absorbed the cultural influence of those that have settled in Britain, producing hybrid dishes, such as the Anglo-Indian chicken tikka masala."
English cuisine
Scottish cuisine is the specific set of cooking traditions and practices associated with Scotland. It has distinctive attributes and recipes of its own, but shares much with wider European cuisine as a result of foreign and local influences both ancient and modern. Scotland's natural larder of game, dairy, fish, fruit, and vegetables is the integral factor in traditional Scottish cooking. Scotland, with its temperate climate and abundance of indigenous game species, has provided a cornucopia of food for its inhabitants for millennia. The wealth of seafood available on and off the coasts provided the earliest settlers with their sustenance. Agriculture was introduced, with primitive oats quickly becoming the staple.
Welsh cuisine
Cuisine of Saint Helena
Anglo-Indian cuisine
Balti cuisine
Wine from the United Kingdom
Regional foods
British Sunday roast
Fish and chips
Scandinavian cuisines
Danish cuisine
Danish wine
Faroese cuisine
Greenlandic cuisine is traditionally based on meat from marine mammals, game, birds, and fish, and normally contains high levels of protein. Since colonization and the arrival of international trade, the cuisine has been increasingly influenced by Danish and Canadian cuisine. Since the majority of Greenland is covered by permanent glaciers, the sea is the source of most domestically sourced food. Seafood dishes include various fishes (often smoked), mussels, and shrimp. Ammassat or capelin, a fish in the salmon family is commonly consumed. The national dish of Greenland is suaasat, a traditional Greenlandic soup. It is often made from seal meat, or from whale, reindeer, or sea birds. The soup often includes onions and potatoes, and is simply seasoned with salt and pepper, or bay leaf. The soup is often thickened with rice, or by soaking barley in the water overnight so that the starches leach into the water. During the summer, meals are often eaten outdoors.
Finnish cuisine
Icelandic cuisine
Lappish cuisine
Norwegian cuisine
Swedish cuisine
Swedish wine
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wit-train-topic-000001041
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Glacier_National_Park
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Glacier National Park
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Current listings
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Glacier National Park / Current listings
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Glacier National Park.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
There are 90 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the park, three of which are National Historic Landmarks.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 14, 2020.
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wit-train-topic-000001042
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bernard_MacGinley
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John Bernard MacGinley
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Introduction
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John Bernard MacGinley
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John Bernard MacGinley (August 19, 1871 – October 18, 1969) was an Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Nueva Caceres (1910 – 1924) and Bishop of Monterey-Fresno (1924 – 1932).
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wit-train-topic-000001043
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Germany
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Cinema of Germany
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1960–1970 cinema in crisis
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Cinema of Germany / History / 1945–1989 West Germany / 1960–1970 cinema in crisis
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The film industry in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema made major technical and artistic contributions to early film, broadcasting and television technology. Babelsberg became a household synonym for the early 20th century film industry in Europe, similar to Hollywood later.
Germany witnessed major changes to its identity during the 20th and 21st century. Those changes determined the periodisation of national cinema into a succession of distinct eras and movements.
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In the late 1950s, the growth in cinema attendance of the preceding decade first stagnated and then went into freefall throughout the 1960s. By 1969 West German cinema attendance at 172.2 million visits per year was less than a quarter of its 1956 post-war peak. As a consequence of this, numerous German production and distribution companies went out of business in the 1950s and 1960s and cinemas across the Federal Republic closed their doors; the number of screens in West Germany almost halved between the beginning and the end of the decade.
Initially, the crisis was perceived as a problem of overproduction. Consequently, the German film industry cut back on production. 123 German movies were produced in 1955, only 65 in 1965. However, many German film companies followed the 1960s trends of international co-productions with Italy and Spain in such genres as spaghetti westerns and Eurospy films with films shot in those nations or in Yugoslavia that featured German actors in the casts.
The roots of the problem lay deeper in changing economic and social circumstances. Average incomes in the Federal Republic rose sharply and this opened up alternative leisure activities to compete with cinema-going. At this time too, television was developing into a mass medium that could compete with the cinema. In 1953 there were only 1,000,000 sets in West Germany; by 1962 there were 7 million (Connor 1990:49) (Hoffman 1990:69).
The majority of films produced in the Federal Republic in the 1960s were genre works: westerns, especially the series of movies adapted from Karl May's popular genre novels which starred Pierre Brice as the Apache Winnetou and Lex Barker as his white blood brother Old Shatterhand; thrillers and crime films, notably a series of Edgar Wallace movies from Rialto Film in which Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Karin Dor and Joachim Fuchsberger were among the regular players. The traditional Krimi films expanded into series based on German pulp fiction heroes such as Jerry Cotton played by George Nader and Kommissar X played by Tony Kendall and Brad Harris. West Germany also made several horror films including ones starring Christopher Lee. The two genres were combined in the return of Doctor Mabuse in a series of several films of the early 1960s.
At the end of the 1960s softcore sex films, both the relatively serious Aufklärungsfilme (sex education films) of Oswalt Kolle and such exploitation films as Schulmädchen-Report (Schoolgirl Report) (1970) and its successors were produced into the 1970s. Such movies were commercially successful and often enjoyed international distribution, but won little acclaim from critics.
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wit-train-topic-000001044
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_K%C5%8D-hy%C5%8Dteki-class_submarine
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Type A Kō-hyōteki-class submarine
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Survivors
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Type A Kō-hyōteki-class submarine / Survivors
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The Type A Ko-hyoteki class was a class of Japanese midget submarines used during World War II. They had hull numbers but no names. For simplicity, they are most often referred to by the hull number of the mother submarine. Thus, the midget carried by I-16-class submarine was known as I-16's boat, or "I-16tou."
This class was followed by: Type B, Type C, and Type D, the last one better known as Kōryū.
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There are four Type A midgets on display in the world:
HA-8 – Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, Connecticut
HA-18 – JMSDF Etajima Naval Base, Etajima, Japan
HA-19 – National Museum of the Pacific War, Fredericksburg, Texas
A composite of two that entered the Sydney harbor in May 1942 – Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia
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wit-train-topic-000001045
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Black_Bear_Festival
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North Carolina Black Bear Festival
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Fifth anniversary
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North Carolina Black Bear Festival / Fifth anniversary
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The North Carolina Black Bear Festival is a three-day annual event at the beginning of June in Plymouth, North Carolina. The festival raises awareness and educates individuals on the fact that North Carolina has the largest black bears in the world. It has over thirty entertaining and bear-themed activities, such as live music, bear tours, museums, and helicopter rides, to celebrate the incredible animals. The first year it was held, the event received the "Rising Star Award" from the North Carolina Association of Festivals and Events. The festival has gained a great amount of awareness, as it now has up to 30,000 attendees each year.
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June 1–2, 2019 marks the North Carolina Black Bear Festival's 5th Anniversary. With a mission of celebrating these magnificent animals, they have added several new experiences. 2019 marks the year of the first mechanical black bear ride at the festival as well as airboat rides, black bear tent theatre, and make your own bear. Each event is themed around black bears and is geared to educate the public on their existence. There are also bear tours, which take participants to a private farm where there are between twenty and fifty bears. There is a firework show to end the night on Saturday.
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wit-train-topic-000001046
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_in_the_Philippines
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Arts in the Philippines
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Architecturally allied arts
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Arts in the Philippines / Non-traditional arts / Architecture and allied arts / Architecturally allied arts
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Arts in the Philippines refer to the various forms of the arts that have developed and accumulated in the Philippines from the beginning of civilization in the country up to the present era. They reflect the range of artistic influences on the country's culture, including indigenous forms of the arts, and how these influences have honed the country's arts. These arts are divided into two distinct branches, namely, traditional arts and non-traditional arts. Each branch is further divided into various categories with subcategories.
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The allied arts of architecture include interior design, landscape architecture, and urban design. Interior design in the Philippines has been influenced by indigenous Filipino interiors and cultures, Hispanic styles, American styles, Japanese styles, modern design, avant-garde, tropical design, neo-vernacular, international style, and sustainable design. As interior spaces are expressions of culture, values, and aspirations, they have been heavily researched on by Filipino scholars. Common interior design styles in the country for decades have been Tropical, Filipino, Japanese, Mediterranean, Chinese, Moorish, Victorian, and Baroque, while Avant Garde Industrial, Tech and Trendy, Metallic Glam, Rustic Luxe, Eclectic Elegance, Organic Opulence, Design Deconstructed, and Funk Art have recently become popular. Landscape architecture in the Philippines initially followed the client's opulence, however, in recent years, the emphasis has been on the ecosystem and sustainability. Urban planning is a key economic and cultural issue in the Philippines, notably due to the high population of the country, marked with problems on infrastructures such as transportation. Many urban planners have initiated proposals for the uplifting of urban areas, especially in congested and flood-prone Metro Manila.
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wit-train-topic-000001047
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_County_Courthouse_(Ohio)
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Highland County Courthouse (Ohio)
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Gallery
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Highland County Courthouse (Ohio) / Gallery
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The Highland County Courthouse is located in Hillsboro, Ohio. The courthouse was placed on the National Register on August 24, 1978.
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wit-train-topic-000001048
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism_in_Canada
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Sikhism in Canada
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British Columbia
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Sikhism in Canada / By province / British Columbia
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Canadian Sikhs number roughly 500,000 people and account for roughly 1.4% of Canada's population. Canadian Sikhs are often credited for paving the path to Canada for all South Asian immigrants as well as for inadvertently creating the presence of Sikhism in the United States. Sikhism is a world religion with 27 million followers worldwide, with majority of their population in Punjab, India. The Legislative Assembly of Ontario celebrates April as Sikh Heritage Month.
The largest Sikh populations in Canada are found in British Columbia, followed by Ontario and then Alberta. However, Sikhs can be found in every province and territory within the country. As of the 2011 Census, more than half of Canada's Sikhs can be found in one of four cities: Surrey, Brampton, Calgary, and Abbotsford. British Columbia holds the distinction of being the only province or jurisdiction outside of South Asia with Sikhism as the second most followed religion among the population.
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Sikhism is the second largest religion in the Greater Vancouver area where they form 6.8% of the total population.
In 2001 16,780 persons in the Abbotsford area stated that they were of the Sikh religion. In 2011 28,235 persons in the Abbotsford area stated that they were of the Sikh religion, making up 16.9% of the population. Of all census metropolitan areas in Canada, Abbotsford had the highest Sikh percentage in 2011.
Gur Sikh Temple is located in Abbotsford. It was the Sikh gurdwara building in North America that is still standing. In 1975 the Khalsa Diwan Society of Abbotsford separated from the parent organization in Vancouver, as the title of the Abbotsford gurdwara was transferred to the separated entity. The Abbotsford Sikhs wanted to have local control over their gurdwara.
The largest concentration of Sikhs in the Greater Vancouver area is in the City of Surrey in the census agglomeration's southeastern sector, forming 22.6% of the population. The City of Abbotsford which lies east of the census agglomeration's boundary, has the next-largest concentration of Sikhs in British Columbia, at 13.4% of the population (with 16.3% self-identifying of the total city population as East Indian, and 2.3% as Punjabi).
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wit-train-topic-000001049
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinaria_reniformis
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Turbinaria reniformis
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Introduction
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Turbinaria reniformis
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Turbinaria reniformis, commonly known as yellow scroll coral, is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being "vulnerable".
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wit-train-topic-000001050
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naujaat_Airport
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Naujaat Airport
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Introduction
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Naujaat Airport
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Naujaat Airport, formerly Repulse Bay Airport, (IATA: YUT, ICAO: CYUT) is located at Naujaat, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut.
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wit-train-topic-000001051
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_measurement_unit
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Inertial measurement unit
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Operational principles
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Inertial measurement unit / Operational principles
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An inertial measurement unit is an electronic device that measures and reports a body's specific force, angular rate, and sometimes the orientation of the body, using a combination of accelerometers, gyroscopes, and sometimes magnetometers. IMUs are typically used to maneuver aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles, among many others, and spacecraft, including satellites and landers. Recent developments allow for the production of IMU-enabled GPS devices. An IMU allows a GPS receiver to work when GPS-signals are unavailable, such as in tunnels, inside buildings, or when electronic interference is present. A wireless IMU is known as a WIMU.
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An inertial measurement unit works by detecting linear acceleration using one or more accelerometers and rotational rate using one or more gyroscopes. Some also include a magnetometer which is commonly used as a heading reference. Typical configurations contain one accelerometer, gyro, and magnetometer per axis for each of the three principal axes: pitch, roll and yaw.
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wit-train-topic-000001052
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordia_subcordata
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Cordia subcordata
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Introduction
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Cordia subcordata
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Cordia subcordata is a species of flowering tree in the borage family, Boraginaceae, that occurs in eastern Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, northern Australia and the Pacific Islands. The plant is known by a variety of names including beach cordia, sea trumpet, and kerosene wood, among others.
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wit-train-topic-000001053
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Family,_Singapore
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Church of the Holy Family, Singapore
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Gallery
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Church of the Holy Family, Singapore / Gallery
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The Church of the Holy Family, also known as Holy Family Church and Katong Catholic Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Singapore. It is located at Chapel Road, off East Coast Road, and has one of the largest parish populations in the archdiocese.
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wit-train-topic-000001054
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Branca_State_Park
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Pedra Branca State Park
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Trails
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Pedra Branca State Park / Visiting / Trails
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The Pedra Branca State Park is a state park in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It is one of the largest urban nature parks in the world. It protects an area of Atlantic Forest in the west of the city of Rio de Janeiro that includes the highest point in the city, the Pico da Pedra Branca.
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There are several ecological trails and walks.
Guided tours are available, including an 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) walk to the top of the Pedra Branca.
The bi-lingual Portuguese/English trail guide with maps and photographs was published by INEA in 2013.
The trails have different lengths and levels of difficulty to cater to all tastes.
The 250 metres (820 ft) Circuito das Águas Trail passes waterfalls weirs and dams.
The 800 metres (2,600 ft) Rio Grande Trail with descriptive signs is at the Pau da Fome center, designed for all ages. Attractions include the 19th century aqueduct, the Figuera Dam, a corner of the Padaria Dam, and typical bromeliads and tree of the Atlantic Forest.
The 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) Açude Camorim Trail, starting at the Camorim Center, provides a beautiful view of the Camorim reservoir, which is about one quarter of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon.
The 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) Piabas-Grumari Crossing leads to Grumari Beach, where visitors may bathe, and includes gazebos and dense Atlantic Forest vegetation.
The 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) Santa Bárbara Trail is one of the most popular, and leads from the Pau a Fome to the Pico da Pedra Branca, with steep stretches. The Pico da Pedra Branca trail, leading to the highest point, is long but easy.
The shorter Pedra do Quilombo trail is harder, and includes a 10 metres (33 ft) exposed section on a rock face where a steel cable and metal foot rests have been installed.
The 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) Caverna Carlos Bandeira Trail leads to and through the 30 metres (98 ft) Carlos Bandeira cave.
The 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) crossing from Rio da Prata to Pau da Fome, via Monte Alegre, crosses the Pedra Branca massif. It is the hardest trail, with a maximum altitude of 793 metres (2,602 ft). It has natural lookouts, rivers, waterfalls and Atlantic Forest vegetation.
The 11.8 kilometres (7.3 mi) crossing from Jacarepaguá to Campo Grande follows sections of an old colonial road, and remnants of the stone pavement are still visible.
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wit-train-topic-000001055
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Incoll
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Jack Incoll
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Introduction
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Jack Incoll
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John Valentine 'Jack' Incoll (14 February 1879 – 22 May 1961) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Incoll started his career at South Melbourne but it wasn't until he went to Collingwood in 1902 that he established himself as a VFL footballer. He played in Collingwood's 1902 and 1903 premiership sides and at one stage the club strung together 16 consecutive wins with him in the team. Incoll was also a member of the side which lost the 1905 Grand Final.
Used in a variety of positions, he spent a lot of his time in the forward line and was also pushed back in defence on occasions. Incoll was a fill in ruckman when Collingwood won the 1903 premiership. In a game against St Kilda in the 1905 VFL season he kicked a career best six goals, his next best from his 72 games was two goals which he achieved numerous times. He finished his career in New South Wales and represented the state at the 1911 Adelaide Carnival.
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