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Arun Manilal Gandhi (born April 14 1934, Durban, South Africa) is the fifth grandson of Mahatma Gandhi through his second son Manilal. Following the footsteps of his grandfather, he is also a socio-political activist, although he eschews the ascetic lifestyle of his grandfather.
Early life .
Born to Sushila and Manilal Gandhi, Arun's childhood days under South Africa'
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"Armageddon Game" is an episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the thirteenth episode of the second season.
Quick Overview: Bashir and O'Brien are sent to help dismantle a deadly biological weapon.
Plot summary.
Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien have spent the past two weeks helping two races, the T'Lani and the Kellerun, dismantle deadly biological weapons known as "Harvesters" which were used by both sides in a
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is a televised anime series written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and made up of 43 episodes aired in 1979.
The series was later re-edited for theatrical release and split into three movies in 1981.Yoshikazu Yasuhiko did the character designs and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the titular giant robot, the RX-78-2 Gundam.
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Universal Century 0079
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Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a fighting game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo DS, and PSP, and it ties into the comic series.
About the game.
The game pitches a series of Marvel heroes and villains, including Captain America, Venom, Wolverine, Dr. Doom, Iron Man, and Spider-Man against a series of original Marvel-owned, EA-created characters. Combat is simplified in favor of allowing the player greater movement, and the game is already
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Blades of the Tiger is a fantasy novel set in the Dragonlance campaign series and is the first of a trilogy about Taladas. The second book in the trilogy is Trail of the Black Wyrm.
Plot introduction.
Blades of the Tiger is set in Taladas shortly after the War of Souls, and is generally located in the Imperial League.
Plot summary.
While stealing a portrait of Silvanos from a fief, Shedara discovers the lord has been attacked and is dying. The
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County Route G2 more commonly known as Lawrence Expressway and Quito Road is a busy 9.7 mile (16 km) long north-south link through the Silicon Valley in Northern California. The majority of G2 is part of the Santa Clara County Expressway System.
Route summary.
G2 runs from the Quito Road overcrossing of CA-85 in Saratoga, north along Quito Road. G2 is not signed along this section and is not commonly recognized as existing along this 2 lane road by both locals and mapmakers. The
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La Polla Records were a radical Spanish punk rock band. La Polla Records was formed in 1979 in Agurain, a small town in Euskadi. Its original founders were Evaristo Paramos (vocals), Maleguin, Txarly and Sume. The name was somewhat controversial because in Spanish, "polla" is slang for penis.
Background.
In 1981, they recorded an EP under the indie label Oihuka called ¿Y Ahora Qué?" ("So now what?"). It
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Hyman Spotnitz (1908-) is an American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who pioneered an approach to working psychoanalytically with schizophrenics in the 1950s called modern psychoanalysis. He also was one of the pioneers of group therapy.
Background and Education.
Born in Boston to immigrant parents, Spotniz attended Harvard College and received a degree in medicine from Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1934. He continued his medical studies at the College of Physicians and Surge
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This article is about the Norwegian rock band. For the tent, see Wigwam. For other bands, see Wigwam (band);
Wig Wam is a Norwegian rock band, which is dedicated to the Glam metal and imitates the style of typical American rock bands from the 1980s.
Eurovision .
In the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 Wig Wam represented Norway after winning the Norwegian pre-selection Melodi Grand Prix. With the song "In My Dreams", written by
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Autumn Leaves is a 1956 American feature film directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Jean Rouverol and Hugo Butler. It starred Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles and Lorne Greene.
Plot.
Millicent Wetherby (Joan Crawford) is a lonely middle-aged woman who works as a typist. Her closest friend is Liz (Ruth Donnelly), another lonely middle-aged woman. One night, Milly goes to a concert alone then stops at a small diner
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Disambiguation: you may be looking for picket fence or picket fencing
Picket Fences was a 60-minute drama which ran from September 18th, 1992 to June 26th, 1996 on the CBS television network in the United States. This show was created by Emmy-award winning producer David E. Kelley.
Series Overview.
The series followed the lives of the residents of the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, where weird things happened, including cows
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Andover is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 2,109 at the 2000 census. Andover includes the villages of Cilleyville, Potter Place, and East Andover, a resort on Highland Lake. The town is home to Ragged Mountain State Forest and Proctor Academy, a private coeducational preparatory school.
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Settled in 1761, the town was originally named "New Breton," having been granted primarily to soldiers who had taken
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Lunigiana is an historical territory of Italy, which today falls within the provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara. Its borders derive from the ancient Roman settlement, later the Medieval diocese of Luni, which no longer exists.
Lunigiana covers an area from the Apennines to the Magra river, belonging in part to Tuscany and in part to Liguria. It takes its name from Luni, a Roman town, perhaps pre-dated by an Etruscan settlement, which became the principal urban center on the northern
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Joseph Henry "Joe" Baker (July 17, 1940 October 6, 2003) was an England international footballer. Born in Liverpool, England, he spent virtually his entire childhood growing up in Motherwell, Scotland. Despite having a Scottish accent and upbringing, his birthplace made him only eligible to play for England under the rules of the time.
A centre forward, Baker began his career with Hibernian, scoring 102 goals in 117 games. His place of birth made him ineligible
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Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception, also referred to as direct-to-home signals. It covers both analog and digital television and radio reception, and is often extended to other services provided by modern digital television systems, including video-on-demand and interactive features. A "DBS service" usually refers to either a commercial service, or a group of free channels available from one orbital position targeting one country.
Terminology confusion.
In certain regions of the world, especially in North America, DBS
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Please Teach Me English (Yeongeo wanjeonjeongbok) is a 2003 South Korean comedy about a young woman who begins English lessons after she is unable to help a belligerent foreigner who comes to her government office.
Plot.
This story is about relations Mun-su (starring Jang Hyuk) and Na Young-ju (starring Lee Na-young), both of whom classmates of a private English class. Mun-su, having a taste of girls, would frequently look out for girls working
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Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, is the largest of the 10 community colleges in the Maricopa County Community College District. Enrollment in the spring of 2002 topped 24,000 full- and part-time students. It was founded in 1963, and is particularly known for its competitive emergency medical technician program.
Campuses .
The college has one main campus and five branch campuses:
Southern and Dobson, in the western part of Mesa, Arizona, serves the
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WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm or Wildstorm, is a publishing imprint and studio of American comic book publisher DC Comics. WildStorm originated in 1992 as comics creator Jim Lee's personal company in the partnership making up Image Comics. After the sale to DC in 1999, Lee remained as Wildstorm's Editorial Director, a position he continues to hold. The Executive Editor is Scott Dunbier. The WildStorm imprint is editorially separate from its DC parent, with its main studio located on the West Coast
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The British Rail Class 142 is a class of "Pacer" diesel multiple units used in the United Kingdom. They were built by BREL (British Rail Engineering) in Derby in 1985. They were a development of the earlier Class 141.
The train body is based on that of the Leyland National bus and many fixtures and fittings of the bus can be found on the trains. The class has a capacity of 106 passengers per two-car set. Initially, the same engines and mechanical transmissions were
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The military history of Canada comprises millennia of armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, and the role of the Canadian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide. For thousands of years, the area that would become Canada was the site of sporadic intertribal wars among First Nations peoples. Beginning in the 16th century, the arrival of Europeans led to conflicts with Aboriginal peoples and among the invading Europeans in the New World. Starting in the 17th century, the region was the site of conflicts between the French and the British for more than a century
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Acts performing at the HFStival, a Washington, DC/Baltimore outdoor alternative rock festival, 1990 2006.
Bold text indicates a headlining artist.
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2 Cents (2006);
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311 (1999);
3 Doors Down (2001);
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Abandoned Pools (2002
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Reaganomics (a portmanteau of "Reagan" and "economics," coined by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey) is a term that has been used to both describe and decry the free market advocacy economic policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who served from 1981 to 1989. It is comparable to Thatcherism, the economic philosophy of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979 1990), who was Reagan's contemporary.
Reagan assumed office during a period of high inflation and
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Alexander "Sandy" Murry and Dennys Murry are fictional identical twins in Madeline L'Engle's Time Quartet. They play only minor roles in three of the books but are the protagonists of Many Waters. As an adult, Sandy is a major character in A House Like a Lotus.
Major traits.
The twins are very close to each other, with Sandy usually being the leader. It is said that they seldom disagree on any subject for long.
Sandy and Dennys are oversh
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Derek Parfit (born December 11, 1942) is a British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics, and the relations between them. His 1984 book, Reasons and Persons (described by Alan Ryan in The Sunday Times as "something close to a work of genius") has been very influential in the field. He is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Harvard University, and Rutgers University.
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Empress Dou Miao ( ) (d. 172), formally Empress Huansi (literally, "the diligent and deep-thinking empress"), was an empress during Han Dynasty. She was the third wife of Emperor Huan. After his death in 168, she served as regent for his successor Emperor Ling, assisted by her father Dou Wu and the Confucian scholar Chen Fan ( ), but Dou and Chen had a major confrontation with powerful eunuchs later in 168 and were defeated and
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Railguns are a popular device in science fiction. However, they are rarely portrayed accurately, often being confused with coilguns or directed-energy weapons.
Books.
The Big U (by Neal Stephenson) A character builds a mass driver as part of an academic project.
Buck Rogers (novel series): Uses mass driver railguns on Luna.
Count Zero (by William Gibson): The characters speculate that a huge explosion was triggered by a railgun, and they describe the railgun's inherent instability: "
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Allen is a city in Collin County, Texas (USA). As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 43,554. As of September 2005, the city's population is estimated at 69,891.
Geography.
Allen is located at (33.099748, -96.662922).
According to the United States Census Bureau, after buying the Chase Oaks Golf Course the city has a
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The Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is a species of fish. Also known as Black Bass, Green Trout, Bigmouth Bass, and Lineside Bass.
Physical Description.
The largemouth bass is marked by a series of dark blotches forming a ragged horizontal stripe along the length of each side. It can also be totally black. The upper jaw of a largemouth bass extends beyond the back of the eye. The average largemouth bass weighs 1 to 2 pounds and between 8 and
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WFLZ-FM is a Contemporary Hit Radio/Pop music (Top 40) station broadcasting in the Tampa Bay area, Florida, USA. Before the 90s, the station played the Oldies format before switching to Top 40 to compete against local CHR Q105. The station became 93.3 The Power Pig, and later re-imaged to 93.3 FLZ. The station is the flagship station for the MJ Morning Show hosted by Todd Schnitt, which is also played on WFKS and KSLZ.
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Moses Isserles (or Moshe Isserlis) (1530 - 1572), was a Rabbi and Talmudist, renowned for his fundamental work of Halakha (Jewish law), entitled HaMapah (lit. "the tablecloth"), a commentary on - and component of - the Shulkhan Arukh (lit. "the set table"). He is also well known for Darkhei Moshe, a commentary on the Tur. Rabbi Isserles is also "the ReMA" (or "the
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James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine (20 July 1811 20 November 1863) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat, best known as Governor General of the Province of Canada and Viceroy of India. He was the son of the 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine. His second wife was Lady Mary Lambton, daughter of the 1st Earl of Durham, the author of the groundbreaking Report on the Affairs of British North America
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Joseph Davidovits (b. 1935) is a French materials scientist who has posited that the blocks of the Great Pyramid are not carved stone, but mostly a form of limestone concrete. He holds the Ordre National du Mérite, is the author and co-author of more than 130 scientifical papers and conferences reports, and holds more than fifty patents.
Theory.
Davidovits was not convinced that the ancient Egyptians possessed the tools or technology to carve and haul the huge (2.5 to 1
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Marcos may refer to:
Sports.
Dayton Marcos, a Negro League baseball team from Dayton, Ohio;
Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver ;
Marcos Armas, Venezuela-born American baseball player;
Marcos Assunção, Brazilian football player;
Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player and 2006 Australian Open finalist;
Marcos Carvajal, Venezuela-born American baseball player;
Marcos Daniel, Brazilian tennis player;
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New Albion is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, USA. The population was 2,068 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Albion in Orleans County, New York, the source of some early settlers.
The Town of New Albion is in the northwest quadrant of the county, northwest of the City of Salamanca.
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The area was in the domain of the Seneca tribe and was first settled by outsiders around 181
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Géraud de Cordemoy, (October 6, 1626 in Paris - October 15, 1684 in Paris) a French philosopher, historian and lawyer. He is mainly known for his works in metaphysics and for his theory of language.
A short life guide.
Géraud de Cordemoy was born in a family of ancient nobility coming from Auvergne (from the town of Royat). His father was a master in arts at Paris university. As for G
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The Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford) or RAE Bedford (later Royal Aerospace Establishment (Bedford) Pearcy), based near Thurleigh and Sharnbrook, has been the site of major aircraft experimental development work.
In the book "A Short Illustrated History of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford", author Arthur Pearcy writes: "(RAE Bedford is ) the finest research and development establishment outside the U.S.A."
Previously the home of the 30
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The Conway Sisters were a semi-professional singing group from Sligo, Ireland who have achieved a measure of fame through their appearances on The X Factor television programme.
Beginnings.
Laura, Marie, Sharon and Sinead Conway were born and raised in Sligo, Ireland. The four girls grew up with a passion and love of music and performing. In 2002, the four sisters formed The Conway Sisters. Throughout that year they wrote, produced, and recorded music, and played locally. In 2
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Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (March 10, 1844 - September 28, 1908, pronounced Sah-ra-SAH-teh), was a Spanish violin virtuoso and composer of the Romantic period.
Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, the son of an artillery bandmaster. He began studying the violin with his father at the age of five and later took lessons from a local teacher but his musical talent became evident early on and he appeared
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A hydatidiform mole (or mola hydatidiforma) is a disease of trophoblastic proliferation. It can mimic pregnancy, causes high human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) levels and therefore gives false positive readings of pregnancy tests.
Causes.
The cause is not completely understood. Potential causes may include defects in the egg, abnormalities within the uterus, or nutritional deficiencies. Women under 20 or over 40 years of age have a higher risk.
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The Persian Princess or Persian Mummy is a mummy of an alleged Persian princess that surfaced in Pakistani Baluchistan in October 2000. After huge publicity and further investigation, the mummy proved to be an archaeological forgery and possibly a murder victim.
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The mummy was found October 19, 2000. Pakistani authorities received a tip that one Ali Aqbar had videotape that showed he had a mummy for sale. Aqbar led the police to the house of
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Louise Brazzel Johnson (October 6, 1924 -- January 6, 2002) was a little-known insurance agent in Bernice in Union Parish who rocketed to state prominence when she upset the Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in the 1971 Democratic primary. Johnson unseated 24-year incumbent John Sidney Garrett of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish to win the nomination for the District 11 seat in the legislature.
After she defeated Garrett
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Ultraviolet photography is a photographic process of recording images by using light from the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum only.
Overview.
Light which is visible to the human eye covers the spectral region from about 400 to 750 nanometers. This is the radiation spectrum used in normal photography. The band of radiation that extends from about 1 nm to 400 nm is known as ultraviolet radiation. UV spectrographers divide this range into three bands:
near UV (380 2
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The Sassafras River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula in the United States. It is about 20 miles long and starts in western New Castle County, Delaware, and along the boundary between Cecil County, Maryland on the north and Kent County, Maryland on the south.
The Sassafras River rises southwest of Middletown, Delaware, and ends at the Chesapeake Bay in a wide mouth between Howell Point near Betterton, Maryland and Grove
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For the Canadian radio broadcaster, see Ian Brown (journalist); For the Australian swimmer, see Ian Brown (swimmer);
Ian Brown (born February 20, 1963) is an English musician and former lead singer of the indie rock band The Stone Roses and is held in high regard among music fans across the UK for his work with the group. Since the band's acrimonious and prolonged break up in 1996, Brown has released four solo albums to critical acclaim across Britain.
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USS Hugh Purvis (DD-709), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is currently the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Hugh Purvis, a marine who served from 1869 to 1884 and was awarded the Medal of Honor. The ship was launched by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey, 17 December 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Mary Alice Purvis, widow of Corporal Purvis; and commissioned 1 March 1945, Commander B
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Hell bank notes () are a special form of joss paper, an afterlife monetary paper offering used in traditional Chinese ancestor veneration, that can be printed in the style of western or Chinese paper bank notes.
In order to ensure that spirits have lots of good things in the afterlife, their relatives send them paper presents, and one of the things that are usually sent to ancestors are Hell Bank Notes money to spend in the afterworld.
In some mythology, the Hell Bank Notes are sent by living relatives to dead ancestors to "bribe" the King of Hell
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Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born February 14, 1951 in Armthorpe, South Yorkshire, England) is a former English football coach and one of the all-time greatest players.
A former England international manager and player, he decided to retire after leaving FA Premier League side Manchester City as club manager on March 10 2005.
Life and playing career.
Keegan was rejected by local club Doncaster Rovers but made the grade further towards the east coast when Scunthorpe
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The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is a multi-disciplinary research institute. It was established in 1988 by merging in 1960 established EIR (Eidgenössisches Institut für Reaktorforschung) and in 1968 established SIN (Schweizerisches Institut für Nuklearphysik).
The PSI is a multi-disciplinary research centre for natural sciences and technology. In national and international collaboration with universities, other research institutes and industry, PSI is active in solid state physics
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The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the court of last resort for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It meets in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
History .
The original Pennsylvania constitutions, drafted by William Penn, established a Provincial Court under the control of his British governors. The General Assembly, however, espoused the principle of separation of powers and formally called for a third branch of government starting with the 1701 Judiciary Bill. In 1722, the appointed British governor needed the House to raise revenues
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Jordi Gené Guerrero (born in Sabadell, Spain, in 5 December 1970) is a racing driver, competing in the WTCC for SEAT. His younger brother, Marc is also a racing driver.
Early career.
After winning the Spanish Karting Championship in 1986, Gené moved up to automobiles, where he became instantly competitive, winning the Fiat Uno Championship in 1987 and the Spanish Formula Ford Championship the following year.
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Liaisons is an episode from the seventh season of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Plot summary.
The Enterprise welcomes two Iyaaran ambassadors, Loquel and Byleth, who are visiting the ship as part of a "cultural exchange" that will also send Picard to their planet. Before Picard departs, he assigns Troi to act as Loquel's liaison and asks Riker to do the same for Byleth. But Byleth has other ideas, and instead demands that Worf
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Gary Albright (May 18, 1963 - January 7, 2000, born in Nebraska) was an American professional wrestler.
Gary Albright started his career in pro wrestling in 1988 as Vokhan Singh in Bruce Hart's Stampede Wrestling promotion. He teamed with Mukhan Singh to defeat the British Bulldogs for the Stampede International Tag Team Championship. Albright was probably paired with Shaw because both of them weighed over 300 pounds, even though neither
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Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies or HAFS is a prestigious and elite Korean high school for students who want to pursue a solid education based on a high quality of foreign studies and international matters. It is located in Yongin, Republic of Korea, and is a branch school of the Seoul-based Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS).
Location.
The school is close to the mountains and thus has fabulous environmental benefits, such as the daily sight of the many, many tombs that can be seen out the window. Other advantages include the delightfully fresh air
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The New International Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia first published in the 1910s. It was printed in two editions. The first edition was published from 1902 to 1914 by Dodd, Mead and Company. The second edition was copyrighted in 1917 and afterwards by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc. The Second Edition contains more volumes than the First Edition.
The 1926 output was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts by The University Press. Boston Bookbinding Company of Cambridge produced the covers
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São Paulo (pron. ; Portuguese for Saint Paul) is the capital of the state of São Paulo in southeastern Brazil. It is located at
The city has an area of 1,523.0 square kilometres (588.0 sq. miles) and a population of just over 11 million (2006 IBGE estimate), which makes it the largest and most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere and a global city. Some argue that Sao Paulo is the world's second largest metropolitan area.
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Gwen Torrence (born June 12, 1965) was a sprint athlete and an Olympic gold medalist from the United States. She was born in Decatur, Georgia. She attended Columbia High School, then the University of Georgia.
Torrence has won medals at nearly every major athletics competition, including the Summer Olympics, Outdoor & Indoor World Championships, Pan American Games, Goodwill Games, and World University Games.
In her era, Torrence won more Olympic and World Championship medals than any other athlete ever had. Her t
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Angel Eyes is a 2001 drama/romance film, directed by Luis Mandoki.
Plot.
Sharon Pogue (played by Lopez) is a Chicago police officer who keeps a man alive after a traffic accident.
A year later while chasing the suspect of a drive-by, the suspect pulls a gun on her. Just as the would-be murderer is about to fire, a mysterious man named "Catch" (played by Caviezel) saves her. As they develop a relationship,
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¦olska ko¨arkarska liga (¦KL) School Basketball League is a primary school and high school project, launched in the school year of 1995/1996, under the guidance of a group of experts. It provides year-round, active cooperation of youth in sports and interest activities in Slovenian primary and high schools. Its primary guidance is sports as it is based on competitions in basketball, dance, cheerleading and acrobatic cheering. Attending activities, which contribute to excellent organization and execution as well as media promotion of the performances,
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The Sidereal Exalted are a sub-category of semi-divine heroes from the high fantasy role-playing game Exalted published by White Wolf Game Studio. They are briefly described in the game's core rulebook, but are given full attention in the "fatsplat" (hard-cover sourcebook) entitled Exalted: The Sidereals.
Overview.
The central premise of Exalted is that gods have the ability to infuse ordinary mortals with a shard of their divine soul, exalting the individual into a dem
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Brampton Transit (BT) is public transport bus operator for the City of Brampton in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Brampton Transit began operations in 1974. In May 2005, a major upgrade occurred which put more routes into a grid pattern. In 2006 Brampton Transit became Canada's fastest-growing transit system in terms of ridership. Over 10 million riders used Brampton Transit in 2006, marking a 12.4 percent
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Edward Ellsberg (November 21, 1891 - January 24, 1983) was an officer in the U.S. Navy and a popular author.
Ellsberg was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Colorado. He graduated from the US Naval Academy, B.Sc, 1914; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.Sc., 1920; and the University of Colorado, Eng.D. (Honorary), 1929.
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is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). There are 117 days remaining.
Events.
1666 - Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral were destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died. ;
1698 - In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on be
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Money (full title: Money: A Suicide Note) is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis.
Plot summary.
Money tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of commercials who is invited to New York by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, in order to shoot his first feature film. Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob; he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of pornography and prostitutes, eats too much and, above all, spends
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The 9th Infantry Regiment is one of the oldest and most decorated active units in the United States Army. The 1st Battalion has served in the War of 1812, Mexican-American War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, the China Relief Expedition, the Philippine-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Panama (Operation Just Cause).
The United States Army dispatched the 9th Infantry Regiment to assist the Chinese government during the Boxer Rebellion and China Relief Ex
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This page is about the English golf player. For the Gaelic football player see Paul Casey.;
Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S. based PGA Tour and the European Tour.
Casey was born in Cheltenham, but moved to Weybridge at the age of six. After attending Cleves School, Weybridge and then Hampton School, he took a golf scholarship at Arizona State University
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Stjepan or Stepan II Kotromani (Cyrillic: ), nicknamed the Devil's Student was a Bosnian Ban or Herzog of Bosnia from 1314, but in reality from 1322 to 1353 together with his brother, Prince Vladislav in 1326-1353. He was the son of Bosnian Ban Stephen I Kotroman and the Serbian Princess Jelisaveta, sister of king Stefan Vladislav II of Syrmia. Throughout his reign in the
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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA area. It replaced an earlier agency called the Metropolitan Transit Authority, or the MTA, as immortalized in the popular Kingston Trio folk-protest lament "The MTA Song". It is known by the locals as simply The T because of the logo it adopted in the
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The September 11, 2001 attacks were allegedly carried out by 19 hijackers, with planning and organization of the attacks involving numerous additional members of al-Qaeda.
Witness reports of Hijackers.
American Airlines Flight 11.
Two flight attendants called the American Airlines reservation desk during the hijacking. Betty Ong reported that "the four hijackers had come from first-class seats: 2A, 2B, 9A, and 9B." . Flight attendant Amy Sween
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Galusha Pennypacker (June 1, 1844 October 1, 1916) was a Union general during the American Civil War. He is to this day the youngest person to hold the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army, at the age of 20, the only general who was ineligible by age to vote for the president who appointed him.
Pennypacker was born in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. His father had fought in the Mexican-American War, his grandfather in the American Revolutionary War
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Minsk Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1413 till the partitions of Poland in 1795. Centred around the city of Minsk and subordinate to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the region continued the traditions - and shared the borders - of several previously-existing units of administrative division, notably a separate duchy of Minsk, annexed by Lithuania in 12th century.
Geography .
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Pseudo Echo are an Australian New Romantic band.
Formed in 1982 by school friends Brian Canham (vocals, guitars, and keyboards) and Pierre Gigliotti (bass and keyboards), the band completed its lineup with Anthony Agiro (drums) and Tony Lugton (guitars and keyboards).
Their first album Autumnal Park was an Ultravox-influenced album that yielded the Australian singles "Listening" (produced by Peter Dawkins) , "Str
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The Babbar Khalsa (, ) is a militant group considered to be among the oldest and most prominent of Sikh organisations calling for the formation of an independent Sikh state. The envisioned state, called Khalistan (meaning Land of the Pure) by its proponents, would comprise Indian territory in the Punjab, and Punjabi-speaking areas of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. Like other Sikh separatist organisations, the Babbar Khalsa was most active in the 1970s and 1
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International arbitration is the established method today for resolving disputes between parties to international commercial agreements. As with arbitration generally, it is a creature of contract, i.e., the parties' decision to submit any disputes to private adjudication by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with rules the parties themselves have agreed to adopt, usually by including a provision for the same in their contract. The practice of international arbitration has developed so as to allow parties from different legal and cultural backgrounds to resolve their disputes, generally without the formalities of their underlying legal systems.
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Sir Charles Benjamin Cutler, KBE ED (20 April 1918 - 23 September 2006) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, who served as NSW Deputy Premier and Country Party leader.
Biography.
Early life.
Charles Cutler was born in Forbes in 1918, the son of George Cutler and Elizabeth Booth Cutler. At an early age his family moved to the nearby town of Orange. Charles Cutler was educated at Orange
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For the Punk Band, see Fifteen (band).;
15 (fifteen) is the natural number following 14 and preceding 16. In English, it is the smallest integer with seven letters in its spelled out name.
In mathematics.
Fifteen is a triangular number and a hexagonal number, a pentatope number, and the 4th Bell number. Fifteen is the double factorial of 5. It is a composite number; its proper divisors being , and . With
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Zendik Farm (Zendik Arts) is an intentional community founded in 1969. There is some focus on psychology, spirituality, and art. Many of the concepts attempted and applied at Zendik are based on the philosophic ideas and writings of Wulf Zendik.
Zendik Farm is a group of roughly 25 individuals ranging from 4 to 68 years old. They live on a farm in Marlinton, West Virginia. They grow organic produce, have horses, goats, dairy cows, 15 dogs,
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Enclosure (also inclosure) is the process of conversion of common land to private ownership. Historically, enclosure is primarily associated with the privatization of land in England from the 12th to 19th centuries.
Introduction.
There were two main processes of enclosure in England. One was the division of large open fields into privately controlled plots of land, usually hedged and known at the time as "severals". This land was already owned, but under a concept of ownership that gave the owners rights to the crops, but also meant that
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Development Control or Planning Control is the element of the United Kingdom's system of Town and Country Planning through which local government regulates land use and new building. It relies on the "plan-led system" whereby Development Plans are formed and the public consulted. Subsequent development requires Planning permission, which will be granted or refused with reference to the Development Plan as a material consideration.
There are 421 Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) in the United Kingdom. Generally they are the local Borough or District Council or a unitary authority. Development involving mining, miner
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Greater Boston is the area of Massachusetts closely surrounding Boston. The metropolitan area has a total population of about 4.4 million and is the eleventh-largest in the United States. In addition to Boston, other cities include Cambridge, Quincy, Newton, and the largest town in Massachusetts by population, Framingham. Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region.
Based on commuter movement patterns, a wider definition of the area (combined statistical area) is also sometimes used. This wider region extends north to cover
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Anthony Alfred Harmsworth Marlowe QC (25 October, 1904 8 September, 1965) was a British Barrister and politician, who served as a Member of Parliament for 24 years.
Family.
Marlowe was the son of Thomas Marlowe, who was Editor of the Daily Mail from 1899 to 1926 and also Chairman of Associated Newspapers Ltd. Thomas Marlowe gave his son the middle names 'Alfred Harmsworth' from the the company's founder Alfred
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New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern corner of the country. It consists of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
The region was inhabited by indigenous peoples when English Pilgrims, fleeing religious persecution in Europe, arrived nearly four hundred years ago, at the beginning of the 17th century. In the 18th century, New England was one of the first North American British colonies to demonstrate ambitions of independence from the British Crown, although it would later opp
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Pennsylvania Route 23 (PA-23) is an 80 mile long state highway located in southern Pennsylvania.
Route description.
Marietta to Valley Forge.
PA 23 starts in Marietta, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River, and proceeds east towards Lancaster, Pennsylvania as the Marietta Pike. West of Lancaster, Route 23 passes over US 30 (which here is an expressway parallel to Lincoln Highway), with the preceding Centerville Road and subsequent PA-741 providing
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A dispute exists over the legitimacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The debate centers around the question whether the invasion was an unprovoked assault on an independent country that may have breached international law -- or whether the conditions set in place after the Gulf War allowed the resumption if Iraq did not uphold to the Security Council resolutions. Those arguing for its legality often cite Congressional Joint Resolution 114 and previous UN Security Council resolutions, as well as Resolution 1441, stating these documents allow for military action. Those arguing against its
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Nnadia Chan Chung Ling () is a Hong Kong (HK) actress and singer. Born on January 21 1971 she started showbusiness in 1985 at the age of 14 winning a Sally Yeh impersonation contest hosted by TVB, within the show Enjoy Yourself Tonight (commonly called EYT or ). Thereafter she hosted many children's show and sang many children's songs which gained her much popularity within the younger generation. Nnadia stars in films as well as Hong Kong/Singaporean/
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Charlottesville High School (commonly called CHS) is the only public high school in the independent city of Charlottesville, Virginia, serving students from 9th to 12th grade. It is the second largest high school in the region with a student population of 1350. The grounds include a memorial garden, a running track, ballfields, landscaped courtyards and the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center (or "MLK PAC"). Across Melbourne Road lies the Football Stadium, which is used as a soccer and lacrosse stadium during the Spring
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Clock King is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He was originally an enemy of Green Arrow, but has become more identified by his appearances in and Suicide Squad. He has no super-powers, but uses clock-themed gadgetry. He wears a clock mask, a cape, and a blue suit with clock drawings on it.
Character biography.
Born William Tockman, Clock King took dutiful care of his invalid sister, when one day he found out from a doctor's visit that he himself
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Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833 October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher.
Dilthey could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical
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The Byrds (formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964) were an American rock band.
Bridging the gap between the socially and spiritually conscious folk music of Bob Dylan and the fresh sounding hybrid pop of The Beatles, The Byrds are widely considered to have been one of the most important and influential bands of the 1960s. Throughout their career, they helped forge such subgenres as folk rock, space rock, raga rock, psychedelic rock, jangle pop, and on their 1
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Marble Blast Ultra is a 3D puzzle/action game involving a marble, available for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. Marble Blast Ultra is the sequel to Marble Blast for Microsoft Windows. It features 60 brand new levels, enhanced graphics, 2 new power-ups and a multiplayer mode. It is commonly referred to as MBU.
Gameplay.
The basic gameplay involves rolling a marble around a 3D obstacle course from start to finish, avoiding the many hazards littered about. The obst
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The Toyota Hilux, and Toyota Tacoma, are compact pickup trucks built and marketed by the Toyota Motor Corporation. The Hilux name was adopted as a replacement for the Stout in 1969, and remains in use worldwide. In North America, the Hilux name was retired in 1976 in favor of Truck, Pickup Truck, or Compact Truck, until it was renamed the Tacoma in 1995. One popular option package, SR5 (Sport Rally), also became synonymous with the truck, even though
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Thomas Paine (29th January 1737, Thetford, Great Britain 8th June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical intellectual, and deist. Born British, he lived in America having emigrated to the American colonies just in time for him to take part in the American Revolution, mainly as the author of the powerful and widely read pamphlet Common Sense, which advocated independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. He later took part in the French Revolution, and narrowly missed being executed during the
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The Cornish Pirates are a professional rugby union team who play in National Division One, and are the premier Cornish rugby club. Formerly known as "Penzance & Newlyn RFC", they moved from the Mennaye Field in Penzance to a new venue at Kenwyn near the capital of Cornwall, Truro in August 2005. However at the start of the 2006 season, owing to logistics and high costs, they moved to Camborne for their home games. The ground, which can hold 9,000, is nearer
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Danielle Foxxx is a transsexual porn film actress. She was born on November 27, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Biography.
Early life.
Foxxx was the only child of a Brazilian mother and a German-American Father. Her parents moved to the U.S. when was 14 years old. She started crossdressing when she was 16 and subsequently decided to undergo hormone replacement therapy with her mother's support. She claims she realised she was a bisex
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Background .
DSOS(tm) was a real-time operating system (some would say an operating system kernel) developed by Texas Instruments' Geophysical Services division (GSI) in the mid-1970's. GSI's main business was to utilize the latest technology to search for oil. They would collect data in likely spots around the world, process that data using high performance computers, and produce analyses that guided oil companies toward promising sites for drilling.
Much of the oil being sought was to be found beneath the ocean, hence
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Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his burning wit and formidable erudition.
Among the general public, he is best known for his satiric novel Fortress Besieged ( ). His works of non-fiction are characterised by their large amount of quotations in both Chinese and Western languages including(English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin).. He also played an important
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A power station or power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. 'Power plant' is also used to refer to the engine in ships, aircraft and other large vehicles. Some prefer to use the term energy center because it more accurately describes what the plants do, which is the conversion of other forms of energy, like chemical energy, gravitational potential energy or heat energy into electrical energy. However, power plant is the most common term in the U.S., while elsewhere power station and power plant are both widely used, power station prevailing in many Commonwealth countries and especially in the United Kingdom.
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A Tom Jones discography.
Singles.
"Chills & Fever" b/w "Breathless" (1964);
"It's Not Unusual" b/w "To Wait For Love" (1965);
"Once Upon A Time" b/w "I Tell The Sea" (1965);
"Little Lonely One" b/w "That's We'll All Do" (1965, produced by Joe Meek);
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The Super C Class Ferries are ferries that are being built for BC Ferries of British Columbia, Canada, at the Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft shipyard in Flensburg, Germany.
These ferries will be replacing the aging V class ferries. These will operate on the Highway 17 (Swartz Bay-Tsawwassen) route as secondary vessels to the S class ferries and probably as the primary vessels on the Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay (Trans-Canada Highway) route.
The
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America is an Anglo-American folk rock band, originally comprised of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972; they reached a peak in popularity in the early to mid 1970s and early 1980s. Among the band's best known songs are "A Horse With No Name", "Sister Golden Hair" (both of which reached Number 1), "Ventura Highway", and "Tin Man".
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Brian David Griese (born March 18 1975, Miami, Florida, USA) is an American football player who currently plays quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the NFL. He is the son of former NFL great Bob Griese of the Miami Dolphins. They wrote a book together, Undefeated (ISBN 0-7852-7021-3), published in 2000 about their lives through their undefeated seasons and living through the breast cancer illness and death of Brian's mother and Bob's first wife
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