| Scottish Gaelic Talk:Scottish_Gaelic
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| Women's rights The term women's rights refers to freedoms and entitlements of women and girls of all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society. These liberties are grouped together and differentiated from broader notions of human rights because they often differ from the freedoms inherently possessed by or recognized for men and boys, and because activists for this issue claim an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls. Women's_rights
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| Velvet Revolution The "Velvet Revolution" () or "Gentle Revolution" () (November 16 December 29 1989) refers to a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government. It is seen as one of the most important of the Revolutions of 1989. Velvet_Revolution
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| List of military operations Talk:List_of_military_operations
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| Pipe organ The pipe organ is a keyboard musical instrument that produces sound by venting mechanically compressed air (wind) through resonant pipes. Each pipe produces sound at one fixed pitch, so they are provided in sets or "ranks" with one pipe or more per note, each rank having a common timbre and loudness throughout. Pipe_organ
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| Organ (music) The organ (from Greek όργανον – organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the Western musical tradition. Organ_(music)
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| Common Bluebell Common_Bluebell
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| Leek Leek
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| Émile Zola Talk:Émile_Zola
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| Rue de Rivoli, Paris Rue de Rivoli is one of the most famous streets of Paris, a commercial street whose shops include the most fashionable names in the world. It bears the name of Napoleon's early victory against the Austrian army, at the battle of Rivoli, fought January 14 and 15, 1797. The rue de Rivoli marked a transitional compromise between an urbanism of prestige monuments and aristocratic squares, and the forms of modern town planning by official regulation. Rue_de_Rivoli,_Paris
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| Piet Mondrian Talk:Piet_Mondrian
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| Ibiblio ibiblio (formerly SunSITE.unc.edu and MetaLab.unc.edu) is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source software, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. Ibiblio
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| Battle of Leyte The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the invasion and conquest of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 17 October to 31 December 1944. Battle_of_Leyte
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| MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor problems, also in DOS using HX DOS Extender. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available. A version for the Wii Homebrew Channel has also emerged. MPlayer
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| Doolittle Raid The Doolittle Raid, 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike a Japanese home island (Honshū) during World War II. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to Allied air attack and provided an expedient means for U.S. retaliation for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Doolittle_Raid
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| List of webcomics This list of notable webcomics includes comics which are (or were) primarily published on the World Wide Web, known as webcomics. It is organized chronologically by the comics' start dates.The dates shown after a name relate to the period during which the comic began appearing and, in the case of defunct comics, finished appearing. List_of_webcomics
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| Village pump/Pre-November 2002 archive Wikipedia:Village_pump/Pre-November_2002_archive
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| Mutopia Project Mutopia project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of free content sheet music, in a way similar to Project Gutenberg's library of public domain books.The music is reproduced from old scores that are out of copyright. The new scores are typeset with GNU LilyPond and distributed in PDF, PostScript, Midi, and LilyPond format.Currently, there are more than 1500 pieces of music available, more than half of which are pieces for piano. Mutopia_Project
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| Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources Wikipedia:Free_or_semi-free_non-Public-Domain_information_resources
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| The Doctrine of Chances The Doctrine of Chances was the first textbook on probability theory, written by 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and first published in 1718. De Moivre wrote in English because he resided in England at the time, having fled France to escape the persecution of Huguenots. The_Doctrine_of_Chances
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| Nichols Field Nichols Field was a former U.S. military airfield located south of Manila in Pasay City and Parañaque City, Metro Manila, Luzon, the Philippines. During the World War II era, it was the location of the Far East Air Force's U.S. 20th Air Base Group. Also, based here was Troop F of the U.S. Nichols_Field
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| Mind uploading Mind uploading or whole brain emulation refers to the hypothetical process of scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device, for example an artificial neural network in hardware. The computer runs a simulation model so faithful to the original that it will behave in essentially the same way as the original brain, or for all practical purposes, indistinguishably. Mind_uploading
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| Hongwu Emperor Talk:Hongwu_Emperor
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| Del Monte Airfield Del Monte Field was a heavy bomber capable airfield located on Mindanao in the Philippines. The airfield was located in a meadow of the Del Monte Pineapple Corporation Plantation. Del_Monte_Airfield
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| Odilon Redon Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840July 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Odilon_Redon
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| Baron Münchhausen Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 May 1720 22 February 1797) (often spelled Munchausen in English) was a German baron born in Bodenwerder, who in his youth was sent to serve as page to Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and later joined the Russian military. Baron_Münchhausen
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| Southern Expeditionary Army Group Talk:Southern_Expeditionary_Army_Group
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| Mind uploading Talk:Mind_uploading
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| Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. Eugène_Delacroix
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| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn Yosef Yitzchok (Joseph Isaac) Schneersohn ( 9 June, 1880 OS - 28 January 1950 NS) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement. He is also known as the Friediker Rebbe (Yiddish for "Previous Rebbe"), the Rebbe RaYYaTz, or the Rebbe Rayatz (an acronym for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak). Yosef_Yitzchok_Schneersohn
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| M1 carbine The M1 carbine (formally the United States Carbine, Caliber .30, M1) is a lightweight semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm in the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean War, and was produced in several variants. It was widely used by U.S. M1_carbine
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| Sexual slavery Sexual slavery refers to the organized coercion of unwilling people into different sexual practices. Sexual slavery may include single-owner sexual slavery, ritual slavery sometimes associated with traditional religious practices, slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes where sex is common, or forced prostitution. Sexual_slavery
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| Franz Marc Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 March 4, 1916) was one of the principal painters and printmakers of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of "Der Blaue Reiter" ("The Blue Rider"), an almanac the name of which later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it. Franz_Marc
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| Joseph Stilwell General Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army four-star General best-known for his service in China and Burma. His contempt for formal military dress, his concern for the enlisted man, and his caustic personality would gain him two sobriquets Joseph_Stilwell
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| Kuniaki Koiso was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor-General of Korea and 41st Prime Minister of Japan from 22 July 1944 to 7 April 1945.Koiso was born in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture as the son of an ex-samurai family. His father was a policeman. Kuniaki_Koiso
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| Iwo Jima Iwo Jima (硫黄島, officially Iōtō ?, also frequently Iōjima sulfur island") is an island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain, which makes up the southern end of the Ogasawara Islands. The island is located 1,200 kilometers (650 nautical miles) south of mainland Tokyo and administered as part of Ogasawara, one of eight villages of Tokyo. Iwo_Jima
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| Trow (folklore) folkloric traditions of the Orkney and Shetland islands, a trow (Alternatively trowe; a Scots term for troll ) is a small, troll-like fairy creature. Trows, in general, are inclined to be short of stature, ugly and both shy and mischievous in nature. Like the troll of Scandinavian legend, with which the trow shares many similarities, trows are nocturnal creatures; venturing out of their ‘trowie knowes’ (earthen mound dwellings) solely in the evening, often proceeding to enter households as the inhabitants slept. Trow_(folklore)
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| European Theater of Operations The European Theater of Operations (ETO), is the term used in the United States to refer to US operations north of Italy and the Mediterranean coast, in the European Theatre of World War II. European_Theater_of_Operations
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| Kalki User:Kalki
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| Emilia Hazelip Emilia Hazelip (1938 - February 1, 2003) was a Catalan organic gardener, former Merry Prankster , and pioneer of the concept of synergistic gardening. Her farming methods were inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka after reading his book; "The One-Straw Revolution" in 1977 after it was first translated into English. Emilia_Hazelip
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| Peace Corps The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program that sends people to countries around the world for two-year stints. It was established by Executive Order 10924 on March 1, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public Law 87-293). The Peace Corps Act declares the purpose of the Peace Corps to be Since 1960, more than 195,000 people have served as Peace Corps volunteers in 139 countries. Peace_Corps
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| Guan Yin Talk:Guan_Yin
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| Kerry Wendell Thornley Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 - November 28, 1998) is perhaps best-known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Greg Hill) of Discordianism, Kerry_Wendell_Thornley
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| Scotland the Brave Scotland the Brave" () is a patriotic song and one of the main contenders to be considered as a national anthem of Scotland. In June 2006, the song came second to Flower of Scotland in an online poll with more than 10,000 votes to determine the nation's favourite unofficial "anthem". Scotland_the_Brave
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| Gustave Caillebotte Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an artform. Gustave_Caillebotte
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| Natsume Sōseki 'pen name'Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868–1912). He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2007, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note. Natsume_Sōseki
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| List of ships of the Japanese Navy list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, including ships that are no longer in service. List_of_ships_of_the_Japanese_Navy
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| Percolation theory mathematics, percolation theory describes the behavior of connected clusters in a random graph. The applications of percolation theory to materials science and other domains are discussed in the article percolation. Percolation_theory
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| Buffalo Bill Talk:Buffalo_Bill
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| Apollo Guidance Computer The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was the first recognizably modern embedded system, used in real-time by astronaut pilots to collect and provide flight information, and to automatically control all of the navigational functions of the Apollo spacecraft. It was developed in the early 1960s for the Apollo program by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory under Charles Stark Draper, with hardware design led by Eldon C. Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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