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  • Edgware Road

    Edgware Road

    Edgware Road is a major road in Greater London, England. The route originated as part of Roman Watling Street and, unusually in London, it runs for 10 miles (16 km) in an almost perfectly straight

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  • Aru Islands

    Aru Islands

    The Aru Islands Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a regency of Maluku Province, with a

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  • Simon Crean

    Simon Crean

    Simon Findlay Crean AC (26 February 1949 – 25 June 2023) was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 200

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  • West Kameng

    West Kameng

    West Kameng (pronounced ˈkæmɛŋ ) is a district of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. It accounts for 8.86% of the total area of the state. The name is derived from the Kameng river, a tributa

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  • Heat burst

    Heat burst

    In meteorology, a heat burst is a rare atmospheric phenomenon characterized by a sudden, localized increase in air temperature near the Earth's surface. Heat bursts typically occur during night-tim

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  • Jenny Macklin

    Jenny Macklin

    Jennifer Louise Macklin AC (born 29 December 1953) is an Australian former politician. She was elected to federal parliament at the 1996 federal election and served as the deputy leader of the Aust

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  • Indian Indonesians

    Indian Indonesians

    Indian Indonesians are Indonesians whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore, this term can be regarded as a blanket term for not only Indonesian Indians but also Indo

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  • Velvet Revolution

    Velvet Revolution

    The Velvet Revolution (Czech: Sametová revoluce) or Gentle Revolution (Slovak: Nežná revolúcia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to

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  • Space tether

    Space tether

    Space tethers are long cables which can be used for propulsion, momentum exchange, stabilization and attitude control, or maintaining the relative positions of the components of a large dispersed s

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  • Terceira Island

    Terceira Island

    Terceira (Portuguese pronunciation: [tɨɾˈsɐjɾɐ] ) is a volcanic island in the Azores archipelago, about a third of the way across the North Atlantic Ocean at a similar latitude to Portugal's capita

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