| Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew:תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ; , Tal ʼAbīb), commonly called Tel Aviv, is the second largest city in Israel, with an estimated population of 391,300. Tel_Aviv
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| Threads Threads is a 1984 BBC television play set in the city of Sheffield, depicting the effects of a nuclear war and its aftermath on the United Kingdom. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and early 1984. The premise of Threads was to hypothesise the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom after an exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States escalates to include the UK. Threads
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| Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. It was ratified as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in the American Revolution. Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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| Economy of the United Kingdom Economy_of_the_United_Kingdom
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| University of Oxford University_of_Oxford
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| Unidentified flying object Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately determined. Both military and civilian research show that a significant majority of UFO sightings have been identified after further investigation, either explicitly or indirectly through the presence of clear and simple explanatory factors (see Occam's Razor). Unidentified_flying_object
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| University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (also UCSD or UC San Diego) is a public research university in San Diego, California. The school's nearly campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla community. UC San Diego is one of ten University of California campuses and was founded in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography. University_of_California,_San_Diego
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| Ultraviolet Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than x-rays, in the range 10 nm to 400eV to 124 eV. It is so named because the spectrum consists of electromagnetic waves with frequencies higher than those that humans identify as the color violet.UV light is found in sunlight and is emitted by electric arcs and specialized lights such as black lights. Ultraviolet
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| Union Flag/Archive 2 Talk:Union_Flag/Archive_2
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| Durham University Durham_University
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| United States customary units The United States customary system of units of measurement (also called the English, Imperial or American) is the most commonly used system of measurement in the United States. The US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system in its commercial and standards activities, although there is increasing use of the International System of Units (SI, usually referred to as "metric" in the U.S.) United_States_customary_units
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| Vitamin A vitamin is an organic compound required as a nutrient in tiny amounts by an organism. A compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet. Thus, the term is conditional both on the circumstances and the particular organism. Vitamin
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| Vancouver (disambiguation) Talk:Vancouver_(disambiguation)
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| Euclidean vector In elementary mathematics, physics, and engineering, a vector (sometimes called a geometric or spatial vector) is a geometric object that has both a magnitude (or length), direction and sense, (i.e., orientation along the given direction). A vector is frequently represented by a line segment with a definite direction, or graphically as an arrow, connecting an initial point A with a terminal point B, and denoted by Euclidean_vector
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| Euclidean vector Talk:Euclidean_vector
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| Sildenafil Sildenafil citrate, sold as Viagra, Revatio and under various other trade names, is a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). It was developed and is being marketed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. It acts by inhibiting cGMP specific phosphodiesterase type 5, an enzyme that regulates blood flow in the penis. Sildenafil
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| Veganism Veganism is a diet and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. Veganism
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| Vulvodynia Vulvodynia
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| VAX Talk:VAX
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| William Barnes William Barnes (22 February 1801 - 7 October 1886) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect and much other work including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages. William_Barnes
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| William Shakespeare Talk:William_Shakespeare
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| William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin
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| Week A week is a grouping of days or a division of a larger grouping such as a lunar month, year, etc. Most parts of the world currently use a seven-day week. Weeks of other lengths have been used historically in various places. Week
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| Whaling Whaling is the hunting of whales which can be dated as a human activity to at least 6,000 BC. The evolution of traditional Arctic whaling developed with increasing rapidity by early organ International Whaling Commission (IWC) for its consensus-based emphasis on conservation, resource management, and international cooperative standards. Whaling
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| William McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall (1825 or 1830 Scottish weaver, actor and poet. He is comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language. William_McGonagall
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| Blog A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog
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| Walrus The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous circumpolar distribution in the Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the Odobenidae family and Odobenus genus. It is subdivided into three subspecies: Walrus
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| William Bligh Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty's launch. Fifteen years after the Bounty mutiny, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps, resulting in the so-called Rum Rebellion. William_Bligh
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| Windows 2000 Windows_2000
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| Vedda people Talk:Vedda_people
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| X-ray X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3 × 1016 Hz to 3 × 1019 Hz) and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. X-ray
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| Yard A yard (abbreviationyd) is a unit of length in several different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. It is equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, although its length in SI units varied slightly from system to system. The most commonly used yard today is the international yard, which is equal to 0.9144 meter. Yard
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| Zodiac Zodiac denotes an annual cycle of twelve stations or "signs" along the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the heavens, dividing the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude. As such, the zodiac is a celestial coordinate system, more precisely an ecliptic coordinate system, taking the ecliptic as the origin of latitude, and the position of the sun at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude. Zodiac
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| Milan Milan (; (listen) is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the regional capital of Lombardy. The city has a population of about 1.3 million, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.08 million. The Milan metropolitan area, by far the largest in Italy, is estimated by OECD to have a population of 7.4 million. Milan
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| Yorkshire Yorkshire
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| Bristol Bristol
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| Ilona Staller Talk:Ilona_Staller
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| Clay Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which show plasticity through a variable range of water content, and which can be hardened when dried and/or fired. Clay deposits are mostly composed of clay minerals (phyllosilicate minerals), minerals which impart plasticity and harden when fired and/or dried, and variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure by polar attraction. Clay
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| Lithium Talk:Lithium
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| Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (ca. 69/75 equestrian and a historian during the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies on the battles of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar until Domitian, entitled De Vita Caesarum. Suetonius
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| Linus Pauling Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists in any field of the 20th century. Pauling was among the first scientists to work in the fields of quantum chemistry, molecular biology, and orthomolecular medicine. Linus_Pauling
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| Manchester Mark 1 This article is about the early British computer. The term "Manchester Mark 1" can also refer to the Avro Manchester heavy bomber in RAF service during the early stages of World War II. Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest electronic computers, developed at the University of Manchester from the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or "Baby", the world's first electronic stored-program computer. Manchester_Mark_1
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| Kanji are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (ひらがな, 平仮名), katakana (カタカナ, 片仮名), Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet (also known as Rōmaji). The Japanese term kanji (漢字) literally means "Han characters". Kanji
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| Norfolk Norfolk () is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast, including The Wash. The county town is Norwich, located at . Norfolk
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| Edward Teller Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", even though he claimed that he did not care for the title.Teller is best known for his work on the American nuclear program, specifically as a member of the Manhattan Project during World War II, his role in the development of the hydrogen bomb, and his long association with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (which he co-founded and served as a director). Edward_Teller
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| Crocodile A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae (sometimes classified instead as the subfamily Crocodylinae). The term can also be used more loosely to include all members of the order Crocodilia:alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae) and the gharials (family Gavialidae), or even the Crocodylomorpha which includes prehistoric crocodile relatives and ancestors. Crocodile
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| Falstaff (opera) Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy. Falstaff_(opera)
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| John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes () (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas have been a central influence on modern economics, both in theory and practice. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and to prolong periods of high employment. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics. John_Maynard_Keynes
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| Roman triumph Roman triumph ('civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome. Its origins and development remain obscurevir triumphalis (roughly, "man honoured with triumph") for the rest of his life. After his death he was represented at the funeral of every descendant by a hired actor wearing his death-mask (imago) and clad in the all-purple, gold-embroidered triumphal toga picta ("painted" toga). In the social and political instability of the Late republic, the Roman_triumph
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