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  • HMS Launceston

    HMS Launceston

    Two vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Launceston: was a 40-gun fifth-rate ship in service from 1711 and broken up at Deptford Dockyard in 1726. was a 44-gun fifth-rate ship in servi

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  • Mount Cuadrado

    Mount Cuadrado

    Mount Cuadrado, also known as Mount Quadrado and Mount Quebrado, is a mountain peak located in the Cabusilan Mountains. It has a height of 1,324 m (4,344 ft), and it is located between Mount Negron

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  • Lowell Mason

    Lowell Mason

    Lowell Mason (January 8, 1792 – August 11, 1872) was an American music director and banker who was a leading figure in 19th-century American church music. Lowell composed over 1,600 hymn tunes, man

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  • Execution model

    Execution model

    In computing, a programming language consists of a syntax plus an execution model. The execution model specifies the behavior of elements of the language. By applying the execution model, one can d

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  • Classical Moderations

    Classical Moderations

    Honour Moderations (or Mods) are a set of examinations at the University of Oxford at the end of the first part of some degree courses (e.g., Greats or Literae Humaniores).Honour Moderations candid

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  • Stari Vlah

    Stari Vlah

    Raška (Serbian Cyrillic: Рашка ; Latin: Rascia) is a geographical and historical region of Serbia. Initially a small borderline district between early medieval Serbia and Bulgaria (city/area of Ras

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  • Class action

    Class action

    A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a

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  • Registered Cossacks

    Registered Cossacks

    Registered Cossacks (Ukrainian: Реєстрові козаки , romanized: Reiestrovi kozaky ; Polish: Kozacy rejestrowi) comprised special Cossack units of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army in the 16th a

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  • Waterfowl hunting

    Waterfowl hunting

    Waterfowl hunting is the practice of hunting aquatic birds such as ducks, geese and other waterfowls or shorebirds for sport and meat. Waterfowl are hunted in crop fields where they feed, or in are

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  • Sidney Shlenker

    Sidney Shlenker

    Sidney L. Shlenker (August 14, 1936 – April 23, 2003) was an American businessman. He was the team president of the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball and the owner of the Denver Nuggets of th

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