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  • Ageing population

    Ageing population

    Population ageing is an overall change in the ages of a population. This can typically be summarised in a single parameter as an increase in the median age. Causes are a long-term decline in fertil

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  • Bavarian Geographer

    Bavarian Geographer

    The epithet "Bavarian Geographer" (Latin: Geographus Bavarus) is the conventional name for the anonymous author of a short Latin medieval text containing a list of the tribes in Central and Eastern

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  • Artillery corps

    Artillery corps

    This article needs additional citations for verification.Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Ar

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  • Edmund Hartt

    Edmund Hartt

    Edmund Hartt (1744-1824) was a master carpenter and owned the shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts where USS Constitution was constructed in 1797. The shipyard was located in the North End of Boston,

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  • Army Corps

    Army Corps

    Corps (/k ɔːr / ; plural corps /k ɔːr z / ; from French corps , from the Latin corpus "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the fo

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  • Lanthanide contraction

    Lanthanide contraction

    The lanthanide contraction is the greater-than-expected decrease in atomic radii and ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series, from left to right. It is caused by the poor shielding eff

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  • Olivetti Valentine

    Olivetti Valentine

    The Olivetti Valentine is a portable, manual typewriter manufactured and marketed by the Italian company, Olivetti, that combined the company's Lettera 32 internal typewriter mechanicals with signa

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  • Domingo Moriones

    Domingo Moriones

    Domingo Moriones Larraga (1883–1964) was a Spanish military officer. Moriones was a professional officer of the Spanish Army. In 1934 he was the military governor in Gijon and took part in the supp

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  • Segovia Offensive

    Segovia Offensive

    You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (July 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions.View a machine-translated version of

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  • International Brigades

    International Brigades

    The International Brigades (Spanish: Brigadas Internacionales) were soldiers recruited and organized by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Repu

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