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Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick (Latin: Pātricius; Irish: Pádraig Irish pronunciation: [ˈpˠɑːɾˠɪɟ] or Irish pronunciation: [ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ] ; Welsh: Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and
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Bank reserves
Bank reserves are a commercial bank's cash holdings physically held by the bank, and deposits held in the bank's account with the central bank. In most countries, the Central bank may set minimum r
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Flèche faîtière
A flèche faîtière is a French term that describes a carved rooftop spear, spire or finial that adorns houses of Melanesians in New Caledonia (the Kanak),[specify] particularly those of their chiefs
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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped
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Sardinian nationalism
Sardinian nationalism or also Sardism (Sardismu in Sardinian; Sardismo in Italian) is a social, cultural and political movement in Sardinia calling for the self-determination of the Sardinian peopl
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Benin–Nigeria border
The Benin–Nigeria border is 809 km (503 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Niger in the north down to the Bight of Benin in the south.Map of the Benin-Nigeria borderDescriptionThe border
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Broadcast engineer
Broadcast engineering or radio engineering is the field of electrical engineering, and now to some extent computer engineering and information technology, which deals with radio and television broa
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Lord Treasurer
The Lord High Treasurer was an English government position and has been a British government position since the Acts of Union of 1707. A holder of the post would be the third-highest-ranked Great O
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Rowshan Ershad
Begum Rowshan Ershad (born 19 July 1943) is a Jatiya Party politician from Bangladesh. She was the former Jatiya Sangsad member from the Mymensingh-4 constituency and the former leader of the oppos
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Purgi language
Purgi, Burig, Purki, Purik, Purigi or Puriki (Tibetan script: པུ་རིག་་སྐད། , Nastaʿlīq script: پُرگِی ) is a Tibetic language closely related to the Ladakhi-Balti language. Purgi is natively spoken
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