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  • Summer Lightning

    Summer Lightning

    Summer Lightning is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 1 July 1929 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, under the title Fish Preferred, and in the United Kingdom on 19 Ju

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  • Flaminio Bertoni

    Flaminio Bertoni

    Flaminio Bertoni (Masnago, Italy, 10 January 1903 – Paris, France, 7 February 1964) was an Italian automobile designer from the years preceding World War II until his death in 1964. Before his work

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  • Cassini projection

    Cassini projection

    The Cassini projection (also sometimes known as the Cassini–Soldner projection or Soldner projection) is a map projection first described in an approximate form by César-François Cassini de Thury i

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  • Bounds checking

    Bounds checking

    This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (March 2012 ) (

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  • Milled coinage

    Milled coinage

    In numismatics, the term milled coinage (also known as machine-struck coinage) is used to describe coins which are produced by some form of machine, rather than by manually hammering coin blanks be

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  • Akhurian River

    Akhurian River

    The Akhuryan (Armenian: Ախուրյան , romanized: Akhuryan ) or Arpachay (Turkish: Arpaçay) is a river in the South Caucasus. It originates in Armenia and flows from Lake Arpi, along the closed border

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  • Palmyrene alphabet

    Palmyrene alphabet

    The Palmyrene alphabet was a historical Semitic alphabet used to write Palmyrene Aramaic. It was used between 100 BCE and 300 CE in Palmyra in the Syrian desert. The oldest surviving Palmyrene insc

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  • Rock garden

    Rock garden

    A rock garden, also known as a rockery and formerly as a rockwork, is a garden, or more often a part of a garden, with a landscaping framework of rocks, stones, and gravel, with planting appropriat

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  • Hatria Picena

    Hatria Picena

    Atri ( Ἀτρία ; Latin: Adria, Atria, Hadria, or Hatria) is a comune in the Province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Atri is the setting of the poem The Bell of Atri by American writer Henr

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  • CS Telconia

    CS Telconia

    CS Telconia was a British cable ship used in the early 20th century to lay and repair submarine communications cables. She was built in 1909 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the Telegraph

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